cve/2018/CVE-2018-12572.md

### [CVE-2018-12572](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12572)
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### Description

Avast Free Antivirus prior to 19.1.2360 stores user credentials in memory upon login, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by dumping AvastUI.exe application memory and parsing the data.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151590/Avast-Anti-Virus-Local-Credential-Disclosure.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/151590/Avast-Anti-Virus-Local-Credential-Disclosure.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.