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Unscored CVE-2020-8961 EUVD-2020-29791GHSA-6h67-xpj8-pjh2

An issue was discovered in Avira Free-Antivirus before 15.0.2004.1825. The Self-Protection feature does not prohibit a write operation from…

Published Apr 9, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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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