CVE-2025-7011: Avast antivirus heap OOB when scanning a malformed zip file
Gen Digital · Avast Antivirus
Vendor fix available · Affected: Gen Digital Avast Antivirus · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.
Higher than 3% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
Heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed zip file containing XML may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue affects Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Norton Antivirus, Avast One, and Avast Business Antivirus on Windows, macOS, and Linux for virus definition builds from 25020100 before 25021208. The affected scanning logic is delivered through a shared Gen Digital virus definition update stream. The same stream feeds the consumer antivirus products listed in this advisory and other Gen Digital products that embed the same engine. Mitigation flows through this update channel; installations at or above the listed build are not vulnerable regardless of which product consumes the stream.
Affected products5
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Gen Digital · Avast Antivirusfrom 25020100 before 25021208
- Gen Digital · AVG Antivirusfrom 25020100 before 25021208
- Gen Digital · Norton Antivirusfrom 25020100 before 25021208
- Gen Digital · Avast Onefrom 25020100 before 25021208
- Gen Digital · Avast Business Antivirusfrom 25020100 before 25021208
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- Gen Digital
- Published
- June 2026
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