Norton Utilities Ultimate / Avast Clean-up / AVG Tune-up CVE-2024-13944

From the week of May 5 2025 high severity CISA listing: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of May 5, 2025 | CISA

Norton–Norton Utilities Ultimate Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in NortonUtilitiesSvc in Norton Utilities Ultimate Version 24.2.16862.6344 on Windows 10 Pro x64 allows local attackers to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM via the creation of a symbolic link and leveraging a TOCTTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) attack.

2025-05-09 7.8 CVE-2024-13944

Related references: CWE - CWE-367: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition (4.17)

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