CVE-2023-1586

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Apr 19, 2023
Updated: Feb 5, 2025
Reserved: Mar 22, 2023

Description

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

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L	NLOK

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Avast AntivirusAvast	22.5 through 22.10Affected
AVG AntivirusAVG	22.5 through 22.10Affected

References

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

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