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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityDeferred

CVE-2025-7007

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.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.11%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.11% probability · 1th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Source
security@nortonlifelock.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.