CVE-2024-5803

Published: Oct 3, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 0.8 / Impact: 6.0

Source: security@nortonlifelock.com (Secondary)

Description

The AVGUI.exe of AVG/Avast Antivirus before versions before 24.1 can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via an COM hijack in a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) when self protection is disabled.

Related CWEs

CWE-367

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check. This can cause the product to perform invalid actions when the resource is in an unexpected state.

References (1)

https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.html

Source: security@nortonlifelock.com

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