CVE-2025-7019: Gen Digital Avast Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack overflow vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Office Open XML file may allow Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue affects Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Norton Antivirus, Avast One, and Avast Business Antivirus on Windows, macOS, and Linux for virus definition builds before VPS 25020100. The affected scanning logic is delivered through a shared Gen Digital virus definition update stream. The same stream feeds the consumer antivirus products listed in this advisory and other Gen Digital products that embed the same engine. Mitigation flows through this update channel; installations at or above the listed build are not vulnerable regardless of which product consumes the stream.

Affected products

• Gen Digital Avast Antivirus: before 25020100 (fixed in 25020100)
• Gen Digital Avast Business Antivirus: before 25020100 (fixed in 25020100)
• Gen Digital Avast One: before 25020100 (fixed in 25020100)
• Gen Digital Avg Antivirus: before 25020100 (fixed in 25020100)
• Gen Digital Norton Antivirus: before 25020100 (fixed in 25020100)

Published 2026-06-12. Last modified 2026-10-07.