Avast Antivirus RPC Shutdown Vulnerability

CVE-2020-10863 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An issue was discovered in Avast Antivirus before 20. The aswTask RPC endpoint for the TaskEx library in the Avast Service (AvastSvc.exe) allows attackers to trigger a shutdown via RPC from a Low Integrity process via TempShutDownMachine.

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