Vulnerability · Published Apr 19, 2023 · Assigned by NLOK

CVE-2023-1587

Medium 5.8

In plain English

A medium-severity null pointer dereference in Avast Antivirus from AVAST. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a NULL pointer dereference issue via RPC-interface. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
AVAST Avast Antivirus 22.5 – through 22.10
AVG AVG Antivirus 22.5 – through 22.10

Weakness: CWE-476 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

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