Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-45338
Multiple privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Avast Antivirus prior to 20.4 allow a local user to gain elevated privileges by calling unnecessarily powerful internal methods of the main antivirus service which could lead to the (1) arbitrary file delete, (2) write and (3) reset security.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 22.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
Products affected by CVE-2021-45338
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:12.1.2272
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:12.2.2276
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:12.3.2279
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.1.2286
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.2.2288
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.3.2290
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.3.2291
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.4.2294
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.5.2302
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.6.2310
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.7.2314
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.8.2318
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:17.9.2322
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.1.2326
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.2.2328
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.3.2333
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.4.2338
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.5.2342
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.6.2349
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.7.2354
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:18.8.2356
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.1
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.3.2369
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.4
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.4.2374
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.5.2378
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.6.2383
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.7
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.7.2388
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.8
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:19.8.2393
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:20.0
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:20.1.5069.562
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:8.0.1489
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:8.0.1497
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:8.0.1500
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:8.0.1501
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:8.0.1504
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cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:8.0.1506