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CVE-2024-5803

Local privelage escalation via COM hijacking



Description

The AVGUI.exe of AVG/Avast Antivirus before versions before 24.1 can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via an COM hijack in a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) when self protection is disabled.

Reserved 2024-06-10 | Published 2024-10-03 | Updated 2024-10-03 | Assigner NLOK


HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Product status

Default status
unaffected

<24.1
affected

Credits

Cirosec GmbH finder

References

support.norton.com/...xternal/tools/security-advisories.html

cve.org (CVE-2024-5803)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-5803)

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