CVE-2022-3368

Software Updater of Avira Security for Windows vulnerable to Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Oct 17, 2022
Updated: May 10, 2025
Reserved: Sep 30, 2022

Description

A vulnerability within the Software Updater functionality of Avira Security for Windows allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avira Security version 1.1.72.30556.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NLOK

Weaknesses

CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

Affected Products

Product	Versions
"Avira Security" – for WindowsNortonlifelock	all to before 1.1.71.30554Affected

References

https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.html

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