CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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8.4 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Avast Antivirus Professional up to 4.8.1350 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Stack-based buffer overflow in aswMon2.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows 4.8.1351, and possibly other versions before 4.8.1356, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly gain privileges via a crafted IOCTL request to IOCTL 0xb2c80018.
The bug was discovered 09/13/2009. The weakness was released 09/23/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at evilfingers.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-3522 since 10/01/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 10 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 42261 (avast! Professional Edition < 4.8.1356 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows.
Upgrading to version 4.8.1351 eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (53456), Tenable (42261), SecurityFocus (BID 36507†), OSVDB (58402†) and Secunia (SA36858†).
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 8.4
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
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Local: Yes
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 42261
Nessus Name: avast! Professional Edition < 4.8.1356 Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 801111
OpenVAS Name: avast! Multiple Vulnerabilities - Oct09 (Win)
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Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Antivirus Professional 4.8.1351
Timeline
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Sources
Advisory: evilfingers.comStatus: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2009-3522 (🔍)
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X-Force: 53456
SecurityFocus: 36507 - Avast! Antivirus 'aswMon2.sys' Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia: 36858 - avast! Home/Professional Multiple Vulnerabilities, Less Critical
OSVDB: 58402 - avast! Home / Professional aswMon2.sys IOCTL Handling Memory Corruption Local Privilege Escalation
SecurityTracker: 1022940 - avast! 'aswMon2.sys' IOCTL Memory Corruption Flaw May Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Vulnerability Center: 23916 - Avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 \x27aswMon2.sys\x27 Driver Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability, High
Vupen: ADV-2009-2761
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 08/23/2021 12:58
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (70), 09/15/2017 09:40 (20), 08/23/2021 12:58 (3)
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