AVG Antivirus (All Editions) < 19.8 DLL Preloading Vulnerability (Windows)

This host is running AVG Antivirus and is prone to a dll preloading vulnerability.

The vulnerability gives attackers the ability to: - load and execute malicious payloads using multiple signed services, within the context of Avast signed processes - bypass the part of the self-defense mechanism that should prevent an attacker from tampering with processes and files of Avast Antivirus and load an arbitrary DLL into the Antivirus process - load and execute malicious payloads in a persistent way, each time the services are loaded.

All Editions of AVG Antivirus before version 19.8.

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Update to AVG Antivirus version 19.8 or later.