CVE-2023-1586

Summary

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the restore process leading to arbitrary file creation. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
AvastAvast Antivirus22.5 <= 22.10affected
AVGAVG Antivirus22.5 <= 22.10affected

Weaknesses

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

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References