CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-12254
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-04-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
Avira Antivirus before 5.0.2003.1821 on Windows allows privilege escalation or a denial of service via abuse of a symlink.
Affected configurations
• avira antivirus (< 5.0.2003.1821)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://web.archive.org/web/20200429193852/https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000109798-Avira-Antivirus-for-Windows web.archive.org
- https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000109798-Avira-Antivirus-for-Windows Vendor Advisory
- http://web.archive.org/web/20200429193852/https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000109798-Avira-Antivirus-for-Windows web.archive.org
- https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000109798-Avira-Antivirus-for-Windows Vendor Advisory