CVE-2021-45338

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/researcher-david-eade-reports-antitrack-bug-to-avast-0

https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.3

https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.2

https://github.com/the-deniss/Vulnerability-Disclosures/tree/main/CVE-2021-AVST1.1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-27

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0007