CVE-2020-10862 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service (AvastSvc.exe) allows attackers to achieve Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) via RPC.

Published: 2020-04-01

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-3268	An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service (AvastSvc.exe) allows attackers to achieve Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) via RPC.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00143.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=232420.0
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=232423.0
https://github.com/umarfarook882/Avast_Multiple_Vulnerability_Disclosure/blob/master/README.md

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Avast Antivirus

Microsoft Windows

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2020-04-01T16:53:52.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:14:15.769Z

Reserved: 2020-03-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-10862

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-01T17:15:15.923

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:56:14.550

Link: CVE-2020-10862

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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