CVE-2024-5803

Affecting software: AVG/Avast Antivirus (AVGUI.exe). Vulnerability: Local privilege escalation via a COM hijack under a TOCTOU race condition when self-protection is disabled. Versions affected: before 24.1. Impact: An attacker able to exploit this locally to gain higher privileges. Root cause: C...

CVE-2024-5803: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

The AVGUI.exe of AVG/Avast Antivirus before versions before 24.1 can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges via an COM hijack in a time-of-check to time-of-use TOCTOU when self protection is disabled...