Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation vulnerability in the Self-Defense driver of Avast Antivirus prior to 20.8 allows a local user with SYSTEM privileges to gain elevated privileges by "hollowing" process wscproxy.exe which could lead to acquire antimalware AM-PPL protection...

CVE-2021-45337

CVE-2021-45337 describes a local privilege escalation in Avast Antivirus via the Self‑Defense driver. Before version 20.8, a local user with SYSTEM privileges could hollow out the process wsc_proxy.exe to gain elevated privileges, potentially enabling full antimalware (AM‑PPL) protection. Affecte...