Security Advisory

CVE-2021-45338

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-12-27 12:53:00
Last updated 2024-08-04 04:39:20
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.