CVE-2024-5803

Local privelage escalation via COM hijacking

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Oct 3, 2024
Updated: Oct 3, 2024
Reserved: Jun 10, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NLOK

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
AntivirusAVG/Avast	<24.1Affected

References

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

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