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.
Published: 2020-04-09
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-29791 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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Avira Free Antivirus
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T10:19:19.418Z

Reserved: 2020-02-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-8961

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-09T20:15:12.403

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:44.950

Link: CVE-2020-8961

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