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CVE-2023-7241
Webroot Antivirus COM-Hijacking LPE
High7.9EPSS 0.19%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- OpenText
Description
Privilege Escalation in WRSA.EXE in Webroot Antivirus 8.0.1X- 9.0.35.12 on Windows64 bit and 32 bit allows malicious software to abuse WRSA.EXE to delete arbitrary and protected files.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTextCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.19% · top 92% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.9.
Weakness
Affected products
Webroot · Webroot AntiVirus (Consumer) and Webroot Endpoint Protection (Business)
- affected 8.0.1 – < 9.0.35.17
References (3)
- https://answers.webroot.com/Webroot/ukp.aspx?&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&solutionid=4258 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.webroot.com/us/en/support/support-consumer-release-notes (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.webroot.com/us/en/business/support/release-notes#heading-endpoint (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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