CVE-2021-45338

2021-12-2712:53:00

mitre

www.cve.org

avast antivirus

privilege escalation

elevated privileges

arbitrary file delete

write

reset security

EPSS

Percentile

9.8%

JSON

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.