# CVE-2020-8961: An issue was discovered in Avira Free-Antivirus before 15.0.2004.1825.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-04-09 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## References

- https://support.avira.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000109798-Avira-Antivirus-for-Windows

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