High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 27, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-45336
CVE-2021-45336
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 products
3Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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