CVE-2020-8961 describes a critical vulnerability in Avira Free Antivirus versions prior to 15.0.2004.1825. This flaw allows an external process to bypass the antivirus's self-protection mechanism through a write operation, enabling code injection to disable the feature. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not currently a widely targeted threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 15.0.2004.1825CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avira:free_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.