CVE-2022-4173

Summary

A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
NortonLifeLockAvast and AVG Antivirus20.5 <= 22.9affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269: CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References