Vulnerability · Published Apr 1, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-10864

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 77% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 23.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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 trigger a reboot via RPC from a Low Integrity process.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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