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CVE-2020-8961

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.00%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-04-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2020-8961
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
2.00%

Original NVD Description

An issue was discovered in Avira Free-Antivirus before 15.0.2004.1825. The Self-Protection feature does not prohibit a write operation from an external process. Thus, code injection can be used to turn off this feature. After that, one can construct an event that will modify a file at a specific location, and pass this event to the driver, thereby defeating the anti-virus functionality.

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