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CVE-2025-7007Null pointer dereference in Avast Antivirus on macOS (16.0.0) or Linux (3.0.3)
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.12%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 98% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By NLOK
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLOKCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.12% · top 98% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
What to do
Solution: Fixed in virus definitions 25021804 17/Mar/2025
References
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-2025-200065 (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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