PT-2026-49011 · Ge Digital · Avg Antivirus+4

Published 2026-06-12 · Updated 2026-06-12 · CVE-2025-7005

NVD

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Windows PE file may allow 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 before VPS 25031700.

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.

Fix

Uncontrolled Recursion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-674

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-7005

Affected Products

Avg Antivirus

Avast Antivirus

Avast Business Antivirus

Avast One

Norton Antivirus

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7005 · Security Note
• https://gendigital.com/us/en/contact-us/security-advisories · Note