Security Advisory

CVE-2017-8308

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-04-27 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:34:22
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

In Avast Antivirus before v17, an unprivileged user (and thus malware or a virus) can mark an arbitrary process as Trusted from the perspective of the Avast product. This bypasses the Self-Defense feature of the product, opening a door to subsequent attack on many of its components.