Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Avast Antivirus prior to 20.4 allow a local user to gain elevated privileges by calling unnecessarily powerful internal methods of the main antivirus service which could lead to the (1) arbitrary file delete, (2) write and (3) reset security.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-12-27T12:53:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:39:20.481Z

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

Link: CVE-2021-45338

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-12-27T14:15:08.170

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

Link: CVE-2021-45338

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