Security readout for executives and security teams
This is an old local privilege escalation issue in avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows. A user already on the machine could potentially abuse a vulnerable kernel driver to gain higher privileges. Business urgency depends on whether any legacy endpoints still run this product. Likely exposure is limited to Windows systems running avast! Home or Professional 4.7. Modern environments should mainly treat this as a legacy software risk unless old endpoints, gold images, or offline systems still contain the driver. Treat this as a legacy endpoint hygiene issue unless affected systems are found. If present, prioritize remediation because kernel-driver privilege escalation can turn low-privilege local access into administrative control. Mitigation focus: Inventory Windows hosts for avast! Home or Professional 4.7.; Check Avast vendor guidance and revision history for the appropriate fixed version.; Upgrade or remove unsupported legacy avast! installations..
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- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- avast-aavmker4-privilege-escalation(41527)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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