Vulnerability CVE-2023-1585


Published: 2023-04-19

Description:
Avast and AVG Antivirus for Windows were susceptible to a Time-of-check/Time-of-use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in the Quarantine process, leading to arbitrary file/directory deletion. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.11 and virus definitions from 14 February 2023 or later.

 References:
https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.html

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