198 lines
8.0 KiB
JSON
198 lines
8.0 KiB
JSON
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"title": "Norton, Avast, and AVG local privilege escalation via link following in Data Shredder",
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"url": "https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/"
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"lang": "en",
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"value": "Anonymous working with TrendAI Zero Day Initiative",
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}
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"id": "CVE-2026-6064",
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"options": [
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"Exploitation": "none"
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"Automatable": "no"
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