cve/2023/CVE-2023-5760.md

### [CVE-2023-5760](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5760)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Avast%2FAvg%20Antivirus&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=%3D%20%2023.8%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-367%20Time-of-check%20Time-of-use%20(TOCTOU)%20Race%20Condition&color=brighgreen)

### Description

A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) bug in handling of IOCTL (input/output control) requests. This TOCTOU bug leads to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability which can be further exploited, allowing an attacker to gain full local privilege escalation on the system.This issue affects Avast/Avg Antivirus: 23.8.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://support.norton.com/sp/static/external/tools/security-advisories.html

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