Privilege escalation vulnerability in Avast Antivirus - CVE-2021-45338Deprecated |
ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:89536 | Date: (C)2023-04-25 (M)2023-05-03 |
Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
The host is installed with Avast Antivirus before 20.4 and is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A flaw exists in the application, which fails to handle issues in unspecified vectors. Successful exploitation allows a local user to gain elevated privileges which could lead to arbitrary file delete, write and reset security.
Platform: |
Microsoft Windows 11 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
Microsoft Windows 7 |
Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
Microsoft Windows 10 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |