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CVE-2022-26523

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

The socket connection handler in aswArPot.sys in the Avast and AVG Windows Anti Rootkit driver before 22.1 allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and OS crash) due to a double fetch vulnerability at aswArPot+0xbb94.

References

• https://www.avast.com/bug-bounty
• https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/vulnerabilities-in-avast-and-avg-put-millions-at-risk/

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