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CVSSv3

CVE-2021-45337

Published: 27/12/2021 Updated: 12/07/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 2
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense driver of Avast Antivirus before 20.8 allows a local user with SYSTEM privileges to gain elevated privileges by "hollowing" process wsc_proxy.exe which could lead to acquire antimalware (AM-PPL) protection.

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References

NVD-CWE-noinfohttps://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST3%20%26%20CVE-2021-AVST4%20%26%20CVE-2021-AVST5https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0https://nvd.nist.gov
CVSSv3
CVSSv2
CVSSv3
VMScore
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