Vulnerability CVE-2018-12572


Published: 2019-03-21

Description:
Avast Free Antivirus prior to 19.1.2360 stores user credentials in memory upon login, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by dumping AvastUI.exe application memory and parsing the data.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Avast Anti-Virus Local Credential Disclosure
Nathu Nandwani
12.02.2019

Type:

CWE-255

(Credentials Management)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Avast -> Free antivirus 

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151590/Avast-Anti-Virus-Local-Credential-Disclosure.html

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