Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-45338

Title: Avast Antivirus Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-45338.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 27, 2021
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-45338: 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.

Impacted Vendors

T
trustix 1
A
avast 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1 https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2 https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3 https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0 https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1 https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2 https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3 https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-45338 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.