CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-13657

Published: Jun 29, 2020 | Modified: Jul 21, 2021

CVSS 3.x

5.5

MEDIUM

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13657
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Avg_antivirus	Avast	*	20.4 (excluding)
Free_antivirus	Avast	*	20.4 (excluding)

References

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