Vulnerabilities > Avast > High

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2019-10-23 CVE-2019-17093 Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability in multiple products
An issue was discovered in Avast antivirus before 19.8 and AVG antivirus before 19.8.
local
low complexity
avg avast CWE-427
7.8
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
7.8
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
7.5
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
7.8
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.
local
low complexity
avast CWE-119
7.8