Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
Dec 28, 2021
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 27, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Dec 28, 2021
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
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.
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