Security Advisory

CVE-2021-45338

7.8
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date December 27, 2021
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory