CVE-2025-7009
Essential information
- Published
- 13/06/2026 00:16
- Modified
- 12/06/2026 22:16
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 7.8 HIGH (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-125
- CVSS vector
-
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H—
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
- Exploit code maturity
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Attack requirements
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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- Availability (V)
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- Availability (S)
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- Exploit maturity
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Description
Heap buffer out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Windows PE file may allow Local Execution of Code or 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 25021310.
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.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| avast / avast antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| avg / avg antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:avg:avg_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| norton / norton antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:norton:norton_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| avast / avast one | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_one:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| avast / avast business antivirus | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast_business_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |