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CVE-2021-45336

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2021-12-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Sandbox component of Avast Antivirus prior to 20.4 allows a local sandboxed code to gain elevated privileges by using system IPC interfaces which could lead to exit the sandbox and acquire SYSTEM privileges.

Affected Platforms

Avast Antivirus

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References