High severity7.3NVD Advisory· Published Dec 6, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-4173

Description

A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.

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Affected products

Avast\!/Avast
cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: >=20.5,<=22.9
Avast\!/Avg Antivirus
cpe:2.3:a:avast:avg_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: >=20.5,<=22.9
AVG Technologies/Antivirusllm-fuzzy
Range: = 22.10
Avast\!/Antivirusllm-fuzzy
Range: = 22.10
NortonLifeLock/Avast and AVG Antivirusv5
Range: 20.5

Patches

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References

support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory

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