CVE-2024-7236: Avg Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AVG AntiVirus Free icarus Arbitrary File Creation Denial of Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of AVG AntiVirus Free. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the AVG Installer. By creating a symbolic link, an attacker can abuse the update functionality to create a file. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a persistent denial-of-service condition on the system. Was ZDI-CAN-22942.

Affected products

• Avg Antivirus: version 23.12.8700.812 only

Published 2024-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.