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CVE-2024-13944

Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NortonUtilitiesSvc in Norton Utilities Ultimate (Also affects Avast CleanUp and AVG TuneUp)



Description

Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NortonUtilitiesSvc in Norton Utilities Ultimate Version 24.2.16862.6344 on Windows 10 Pro x64 allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM via the creation of a symbolic link and leveraging a TOCTTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) attack.

Reserved 2025-05-06 | Published 2025-05-09 | Updated 2025-05-09 | Assigner NLOK


HIGH: 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Product status

Default status
affected

Any version
affected

Default status
affected

Any version
affected

Default status
affected

Any version
affected

Credits

Vladislav Berghici of Trend Micro Research finder

Zero Day Initiative reporter

References

www.gendigital.com/us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/

cve.org (CVE-2024-13944)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-13944)

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