Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense driver of Avast Antivirus prior to 20.8 allows a local user with SYSTEM privileges to gain elevated privileges by "hollowing" process wsc_proxy.exe which could lead to acquire antimalware (AM-PPL) protection.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-12-27T12:44:28

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:39:20.371Z

Reserved: 2021-12-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-45337

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-12-27T14:15:07.993

Modified: 2022-07-12T17:42:04.277

Link: CVE-2021-45337

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