CVE-2020-8961

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...

CVE-2020-8961

The CVE-2020-8961 entry relates to Avira Free-Antivirus prior to 15.0.2004.1825, where Self-Protection does not block write operations from external processes. This enables code injection to disable Self-Protection, after which an attacker can craft an event to modify a file at a specific locatio...