CVE-2023-1586 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the restore process leading to arbitrary file creation. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11

Published: 2023-04-19

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

No analysis available yet.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Avast

Avast Antivirus

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`22.5`	affected	≤ 22.10

AVG

AVG Antivirus

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`22.5`	affected	≤ 22.10

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:avg:anti-virus::::::::

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

No data.

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-23818	Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the restore process leading to arbitrary file creation. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11

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 0.00132.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

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

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Avast Antivirus

Avg Anti-virus

Microsoft Windows

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: NLOK

Published: 2023-04-19T18:35:09.013Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T16:16:16.966Z

Reserved: 2023-03-22T22:17:51.936Z

Link: CVE-2023-1586

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:57:24.083Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-19T19:15:06.837

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:39:29.733

Link: CVE-2023-1586

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-367

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