CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-45337

Published: Dec 27, 2021 | Modified: Jul 12, 2022
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense driver of Avast Antivirus prior to 20.8 allows a local user with SYSTEM privileges to gain elevated privileges by hollowing process wsc_proxy.exe which could lead to acquire antimalware (AM-PPL) protection.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Antivirus Avast * 20.8 (excluding)

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