CVSS 3.0
4.4 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2019-11230
Medium (4.4) in avast antivirus. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In Avast Antivirus before 19.4, a local administrator can trick the product into renaming arbitrary files by replacing the Logs\Update.log file with a symlink. The next time the product attempts to write to the log file, the target of the symlink is renamed. This defect can be exploited to rename a critical product file (e.g., AvastSvc.exe), causing the product to fail to start on the next system restart.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- avast:antivirus