How severe is CVE-2022-4173?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2022-4173?

This is classified as CWE-269, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2022-4173

HIGH Year: 2022

CVSS v3 Score

8.8

High

Weakness Type

CWE-269

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Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability within the malware removal functionality of Avast and AVG Antivirus allowed an attacker with write access to the filesystem, to escalate his privileges in certain scenarios. The issue was fixed with Avast and AVG Antivirus version 22.10.

CVE-2010-4664

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

In ConsoleKit before 0.4.2, an intended security policy restriction bypass was found. This flaw allows an authenticated system user to escalate their privileges by initiating a remote VNC session.

CWE-2692010

CVE-2012-6639

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

An privilege elevation vulnerability exists in Cloud-init before 0.7.0 when requests to an untrusted system are submitted for EC2 instance data.

CWE-2692012

CVE-2013-0643

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

The Firefox sandbox in Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.67 and 11.x before 11.6.602.171 on Windows and Mac OS X, and before 10.3.183.67 and 11.x before 11.2.202.273 on Linux, does not properly restr...

CWE-2692013

CVE-2013-4583

HIGH

CVSS:8.8(High)

The parse_cmd function in lib/gitlab_shell.rb in GitLab 5.0 before 5.4.2, Community Edition before 6.2.4, and Enterprise Edition before 6.2.1 and gitlab-shell before 1.7.8 allows remote authenticated ...

CWE-2692013