5.5

CVE-2024-9484: avast antivirus NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
Published 04-10-2024Last modified 07-10-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-9484 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in avast antivirus. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.13%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 04-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-10-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

An null-pointer-derefrence in the engine module in AVG/Avast Antivirus signature <24092400 released on 24/Sep/2024 on MacOS allows a malformed xar file to crash the application during file processing.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

3%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.13% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.13%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Avast1 product
Avg1 product
Avg/avast1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

1 links