CVE-2022-26523

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Published 2026-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.