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Chaotic Eclipse Claims Avast Antivirus 0-Day Vulnerability – PoC Released
Researcher Chaotic Eclipse has claimed to have discovered a zero-day privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting Avast Antivirus and released a public proof-of-concept repository named PrettyPrague. The researcher behind the project, using the GitHub handle MSNightmare, says the issue can be exploited on fully patched Avast Antivirus installations running fully updated Windows 11 25H2 systems. The alleged flaw […] The post Chaotic Eclipse Claims Avast Antivirus 0-Day Vulnerability – PoC Released appeared first on Cyber Security News.
Researcher Chaotic Eclipse has claimed to have discovered a zero-day privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting Avast Antivirus and released a public proof-of-concept repository named PrettyPrague. The researcher behind the project, using the GitHub handle MSNightmare, says the issue can be exploited on fully patched Avast Antivirus installations running fully updated Windows 11 25H2…
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