CVE-2025-71326

AVAST Antivirus 25.11 Unquoted Service Path Privilege Escalation

State
Published
Severity
8.5 High
Published
Jun 19, 2026
Updated
Jul 14, 2026
Reserved
Jun 8, 2026

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Description

AVAST Antivirus 25.11 contains an unquoted service path vulnerability in the SecureLine service that allows local non-privileged users to execute code with elevated SYSTEM privileges. Attackers can exploit the unquoted binary path in the service configuration to inject malicious executables that execute with high-level system permissions.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.5 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-428 Unquoted Search Path or Element

Affected Products

ProductVersions
AVAST AntivirusAvast
  • 25.11Affected

References

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