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Avast Antivirus < 19.4 Link Following Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Low
Family
Family
General
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
3.6
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
4 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
This host is running Avast Antivirus and is prone to a link following vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
A local administrator can trick the product into renaming arbitrary files by replacing the Logs\Update.log file with a symlink. The next time the product attempts to write to the log file, the target of the symlink is renamed
Affected Software
Affected Software
Avast Antivirus prior to version 19.4.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to Avast Antivirus version 19.4 or later.