CVE-2025-7009
Published: 12 June 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-7009 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Gendigital (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 4.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-210128
Vulnerability details
Heap buffer out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Windows PE file may allow Local Execution of Code or Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue affects Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Norton Antivirus, Avast One, and Avast…
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Business Antivirus on Windows, macOS, and Linux for virus definition builds before VPS 25021310. 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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.