CVE-2022-4173
Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows vulnerable to Privilege Escalation
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.3EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
05 Dec 2022Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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