Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.
Published: 2020-06-29
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-5898 An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T12:25:16.279Z

Reserved: 2020-05-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-13657

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-06-29T18:15:11.643

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:01:41.830

Link: CVE-2020-13657

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