CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-1586

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Apr 19, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
4.7
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the restore process leading to arbitrary file creation. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Antivirus Avast 22.5 (including) 22.11 (excluding)
Anti-virus Avg 22.5 (including) 22.11 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References