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An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Avast Free Antivirus and AVG AntiVirus Free before 20.4 due to improperly handling hard links. The vulnerability allows local users to take control of arbitrary files.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 29, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-13657

GHSA ID

GHSA-p9cq-92f2-wgq6

Source code

No known source code

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