Vulnerabilities > Avast

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2019-10-23 CVE-2019-17093 Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in multiple products
An issue was discovered in Avast antivirus before 19.8 and AVG antivirus before 19.8.
local
avg avast CWE-426
4.4
2019-07-18 CVE-2019-11230 Link Following vulnerability in Avast Antivirus
In Avast Antivirus before 19.4, a local administrator can trick the product into renaming arbitrary files by replacing the Logs\Update.log file with a symlink.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-59
3.6
2019-03-21 CVE-2018-12572 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information vulnerability in Avast Free Antivirus
Avast Free Antivirus prior to 19.1.2360 stores user credentials in memory upon login, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by dumping AvastUI.exe application memory and parsing the data.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-312
2.1
2017-04-27 CVE-2017-8308 Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Avast Antivirus
In Avast Antivirus before v17, an unprivileged user (and thus malware or a virus) can mark an arbitrary process as Trusted from the perspective of the Avast product.
network
low complexity
avast CWE-269
5.0
2017-04-27 CVE-2017-8307 Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability in Avast! Antivirus
In Avast Antivirus before v17, using the LPC interface API exposed by the AvastSVC.exe Windows service, it is possible to launch predefined binaries, or replace or delete arbitrary files.
network
low complexity
avast
7.5
2017-03-21 CVE-2017-5567 Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in Avast products
Code injection vulnerability in Avast Premier 12.3 (and earlier), Internet Security 12.3 (and earlier), Pro Antivirus 12.3 (and earlier), and Free Antivirus 12.3 (and earlier) allows a local attacker to bypass a self-protection mechanism, inject arbitrary code, and take full control of any Avast process via a "DoubleAgent" attack.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-427
7.2
2016-11-03 CVE-2016-4025 7PK - Security Features vulnerability in Avast products
Avast Internet Security v11.x.x, Pro Antivirus v11.x.x, Premier v11.x.x, Free Antivirus v11.x.x, Business Security v11.x.x, Endpoint Protection v8.x.x, Endpoint Protection Plus v8.x.x, Endpoint Protection Suite v8.x.x, Endpoint Protection Suite Plus v8.x.x, File Server Security v8.x.x, and Email Server Security v8.x.x allow attackers to bypass the DeepScreen feature via a DeviceIoControl call.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-254
2.1
2016-04-13 CVE-2015-8620 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Avast products
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Avast virtualization driver (aswSnx.sys) in Avast Internet Security, Pro Antivirus, Premier, and Free Antivirus before 11.1.2253 allows local users to gain privileges via a Unicode file path in an IOCTL request.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-119
7.2
2016-04-12 CVE-2016-3986 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Avast
Avast allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PE file, related to authenticode parsing.
network
avast CWE-119
critical
9.3
2015-10-18 CVE-2015-5662 Path Traversal vulnerability in Avast Antivirus
Directory traversal vulnerability in Avast before 150918-0 allows remote attackers to delete or write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry in a ZIP archive.
network
low complexity
avast CWE-22
6.4