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TI-2020-07194 Aliases CVE-2020-8961GHSA-6h67-xpj8-pjh2

An issue was discovered in Avira Free-Antivirus before 15.0.2004.1825.

Priority MEDIUM 46Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.02048 81st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:avira:free_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 15.0.2004.1825VulnerableGen Digital
  • cpe:2.3:a:avira:free_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 15.0.2004.1825 Vulnerable ·Gen Digital

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-8961
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6h67-xpj8-pjh2

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2019-13439 Avira Free Antivirus is proned to a local privilege escalation through the execution of… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2020-10083 Avira Free Antivirus through 15.0.2005.1866 allows local users to discover user… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5

Sources

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