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Alwil

First CVE: May 24, 2005Active for: 21 yearsTotal CVEs: 13
37.6
VTI Score
Medium

Alwil develops Avast Antivirus, a widely deployed consumer endpoint-protection product whose vulnerability footprint, though modest in volume, reflects its prominence in the desktop security landscape. The recurring weakness classes center on memory-buffer handling and broadly categorized implementation flaws characteristic of native-code security tools that operate at the kernel and driver level. Live severity, exploitation activity, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.

FAUCET AI Generated
13
Total CVEs
More Total CVEs than 94% of tracked vendors
3.3
Avg CVEs / Product / Year
More Avg CVEs / Product / Year than 95% of tracked vendors
6.1
Avg CVSS Score
Higher Avg CVSS Score than 30% of tracked vendors
0.0%
In CISA KEV
Bottom 1%

Trends Over Time

The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Alwil over time

Volume of CVEsAvg CVSS Base Score
First CVE
May 24, 2005
21 years ago
Most Recent CVE
Mar 21, 2012
5,238 days ago

Products(1 total)

Top CVEs

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (13 CVEs).

13 CVEs · Highest risk first

CVEPublishedCVSSRiskKEVExploit
CVE-2012-1459MEDIUM
The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10
Mar 21, 20124.371NONO
CVE-2012-1457MEDIUM
The TAR file parser in Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka
Mar 21, 20124.370NONO
CVE-2012-1443MEDIUM
The RAR file parser in ClamAV 0.96.4, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, G Data AntiVirus 21, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protectio
Mar 21, 20124.369NONO
CVE-2006-2869HIGH
Unspecified vulnerability in the CHM unpacker in avast! before 4.7.844 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
Jun 6, 200610.025NONO
CVE-2005-2385HIGH
Buffer overflow in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attacker
Jul 27, 20057.522NONO
CVE-2006-4626HIGH
Heap-based buffer overflow in alwil avast! Anti-virus Engine before 4.7.869 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted LHA file that contains extended headers
Sep 7, 20067.521NONO
CVE-2005-1770HIGH
Buffer overflow in the Aavmker4 device driver in Avast! Antivirus 4.6 and possibly other versions allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) and possibly execut
May 31, 20057.219NONO
CVE-2005-1719HIGH
Unknown vulnerability in ALWIL avast! antivirus 4 (4.6.6230) and earlier, when running on Windows NT 4.0, does not properly detect certain viruses.
May 24, 20057.519NONO
CVE-2006-1355HIGH
avast! Antivirus 4.6.763 and earlier sets "BUILTIN\Everyone" permissions to critical system files in the installation folder, which allows local users to gain privileges or disable
Mar 22, 20067.218NONO
CVE-2005-2384MEDIUM
Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allo
Jul 27, 20055.016NONO
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CVE Severity & Scoring

Severity distribution of CVEs that affect this vendor's products13 CVEs
54%
46%
Severity distribution among all CVEs352,231 CVEs
45%
40%
11%
MediumHigh
Attack Vector
Local0 (0.0%)
Network0 (0.0%)
Unknown13 (100.0%)
Physical0 (0.0%)
Adjacent Network0 (0.0%)
Attack Complexity
Low0 (0.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
Unknown13 (100.0%)
User Interaction
None0 (0.0%)
Unknown13 (100.0%)
Required0 (0.0%)
Privileges Required
Low0 (0.0%)
High0 (0.0%)
None0 (0.0%)
Unknown13 (100.0%)

Exploit Exposure

Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (13 CVEs).

CISA KEV
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Metasploit
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
Nuclei
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%
ExploitDB
0 CVEs
0.0% of CVEs· Bottom 1%

Social Chatter

An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Alwil.

Media Mentions

Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Alwil — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.

Top CNAs Publishing CVEs For Alwil's Products

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Top CWEs