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CVE-2020-8961
An issue was discovered in Avira Free-Antivirus before 15.0.2004.1825.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Avira | Free Antivirus | before 15.0.2004.1825 |