{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7228 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7228 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-7228 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Avast Free Antivirus, published on 22 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-7228 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-7228 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Avast Free Antivirus, published on 22 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-7228 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Avast Free Antivirus. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7228/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7228/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-7228","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7228/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-7228","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-3hqr-6848-jx5j"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Avast Free Antivirus","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can cause a denial-of-service condition in Avast Free Antivirus by exploiting a symbolic link vulnerability in the Avast Service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"zdi","cpe":[{"product":"free_antivirus","vendor":"avast"}],"cvss":{"score":6.1,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"description":"Avast Free Antivirus Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Avast Free Antivirus. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.\n\nThe specific flaw exists within the Avast Service. By creating a symbolic link, an attacker can abuse the service to create a folder. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition on the system. Was ZDI-CAN-22806.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Avast Free Antivirus Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-7228","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Avast Cleanup Premium Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-7229"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Avast Free Antivirus AvastSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-7227"},"products":["Free Antivirus"],"published":"2024-11-22","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Avast Free Antivirus AvastSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-7227","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-22"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Avast Free Antivirus AvastSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-7232","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-22"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Avast Free Antivirus AvastSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-7233","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-11-22"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-12572","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-03-17"},{"cvss_score":6.7,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5567","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-03-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-11-23","vendors":["Avast"]},"summary":"Local attackers can cause a denial-of-service condition in Avast Free Antivirus by exploiting a symbolic link vulnerability in the Avast Service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7228/"}