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CVE-2020-9342

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-9342 describes a virus-detection bypass vulnerability in the F-Secure AV parsing engine, affecting Cloud Protection For Salesforce, Email and Server Security, and Internet GateKeeper versions before 17.0.605.474 on Linux. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 5.5) allows an attacker to bypass virus detection by crafting specific Compression Method data within a GZIP archive, potentially leading to high integrity impact with user interaction required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.0.605.474CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:cloud_protection_for_salesforce:*:*:*:*:*:linux_kernel:*:*
< 17.0.605.474CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:email_and_server_security:*:*:*:*:*:linux_kernel:*:*
< 17.0.605.474CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:internet_gatekeeper:*:*:*:*:*:linux_kernel:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0164 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/156506/F-SECURE-Generic-Malformed-Container-Bypass.html
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
blog.zoller.lu / p/tzo-16-2020-f-secure-generic-malformed.html
Third Party Advisory
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/33
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2020/Feb/33
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory