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