Description
Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense driver of Avast Antivirus prior to 20.8 allows a local user with SYSTEM privileges to gain elevated privileges by "hollowing" process wsc_proxy.exe which could lead to acquire antimalware (AM-PPL) protection.
Published: 2021-12-27
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-32110 Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense driver of Avast Antivirus prior to 20.8 allows a local user with SYSTEM privileges to gain elevated privileges by "hollowing" process wsc_proxy.exe which could lead to acquire antimalware (AM-PPL) protection.
History

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T04:39:20.371Z

Reserved: 2021-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-45337

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Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-27T14:15:07.993

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:32:06.460

Link: CVE-2021-45337

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