CVE-2023-1585 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the Quarantine process, leading to arbitrary file/directory deletion. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11 and virus definitions from 14 February 2023 or later.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00068.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Avast	Antivirus
Avg	Anti-virus
Microsoft	Windows

Configuration 1 [-]

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	cpe:2.3:a:avg:anti-virus::::::::

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-23817	Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the Quarantine process, leading to arbitrary file/directory deletion. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11 and virus definitions from 14 February 2023 or later.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.html

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: NLOK

Published: 2023-04-19T18:27:57.763Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T14:44:52.972Z

Reserved: 2023-03-22T22:17:48.081Z

Link: CVE-2023-1585

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:57:23.319Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-19T19:15:06.630

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:39:29.617

Link: CVE-2023-1585

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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