CVE-2024-13961CWE-367CWE-59
Avast Cleanup Premium TuneupSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
High · published May 9, 2025
What it is
Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in TuneupSvc in Avast Cleanup Premium Version 24.2.16593.17810 on Windows 10 Pro x64 allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM via creating a symbolic link and leveraging a TOCTTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) attack.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.8 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00173 · 6.4th percentile
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition; CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
- Published
- 2025-05-09T15:20Z
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