7.5

CVE-2025-7007: avast anitvirus NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighDeferred
Published 01-12-2025Last modified 01-12-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-7007 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in avast anitvirus. EPSS estimates a 0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.11%
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. 01-12-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-12-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Avast Antivirus on MacOS, Avast Anitvirus on Linux when scanning a malformed Windows PE file causes the antivirus process to crash.This issue affects Antivirus: 16.0.0; Anitvirus: 3.0.3.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.11%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

1%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.11% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.11%

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

Avast2 products

1 vendor · 2 products

References

1 links