CVE-2022-4294 is a Privilege Escalation vulnerability affecting Norton, Avira, Avast, and AVG Antivirus for Windows. An attacker could exploit this to gain elevated access to protected system resources. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability is locally exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.1.78CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:avira_security:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
< 119.1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:norton:power_eraser:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
< 22.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 22.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avg:antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.