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CVE-2023-7241Webroot Antivirus COM-Hijacking LPE
- 7.9HighCVSS base score
- 0.19%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 92% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By OpenText
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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 (13 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.
Affected products
Webroot · Webroot AntiVirus (Consumer) and Webroot Endpoint Protection (Business)
- affected 8.0.1 – < 9.0.35.17
References
References3
- 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)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-59422 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-7241)Record last updated .