This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Free Antivirus. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7233.
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ZDI-24-1004: (0Day) Avast Free Antivirus AvastSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Free Antivirus. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7232.
ZDI-24-1003: (0Day) Avast Free Antivirus AvastSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Free Antivirus. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7227.
ZDI-24-1002: (0Day) Avast Cleanup Premium Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Cleanup Premium. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7229.
ZDI-24-1001: (0Day) Avast Cleanup Premium Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Cleanup Premium. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7231.
ZDI-24-1000: (0Day) Avast Cleanup Premium Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Avast Cleanup Premium. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7230.
ZDI-24-999: (0Day) Avast Free Antivirus Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Avast Free Antivirus. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 6.1. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-7228.
ZDI-24-1020: SolarWinds Access Rights Manager deleteTransferFile Directory Traversal Arbitrary File Deletion and Information Disclosure Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files and disclose sensitive information on affected installations of SolarWinds Access Rights Manager. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.6. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-28992.
ZDI-24-1019: (Pwn2Own) Docker Desktop extension-manager Exposed Dangerous Function Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Docker Desktop. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute high-privileged code within the container in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.2. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2024-6222.
USN-6916-1: Lua vulnerabilities
It was discovered that Lua did not properly generate code when “_ENV” is
constant. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary unstrusted lua code. (CVE-2022-28805)
It was discovered that Lua did not properly handle C stack overflows during
error handling. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial
of service. (CVE-2022-33099)