CVE-2006-1355 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in avast! Antivirus 4.6.763 and earlier, where critical system files in the installation directory were assigned "BUILTIN\Everyone" permissions. This misconfiguration allowed local users to modify these files, potentially gaining elevated privileges or disabling the antivirus protection. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C), it represents a high-severity local attack requiring low complexity and no authentication, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.6.763CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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