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CVE-2020-8094 (GCVE-0-2020-8094)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-15 16:12 – Updated: 2025-01-15 16:48

Title

Untrusted Search Path Vulnerability in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 (VA-8422)

Summary

An untrusted search path vulnerability in testinitsigs.exe as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 allows a low-privilege attacker to execute code as SYSTEM via a specially crafted DLL file.

Severity ?

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CWE

CWE-426 - Untrusted Search Path

Assigner

Bitdefender

References

URL

Tags

https://www.bitdefender.com/support/security-advi…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Bitdefender	Antivirus Free 2020	Affected: 0 , < 1.0.16.152 (custom)

Credits

Gábor Selján

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FKIE_CVE-2020-8094

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-01-15 17:15 - Updated: 2025-02-07 21:07

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

An untrusted search path vulnerability in testinitsigs.exe as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 allows a low-privilege attacker to execute code as SYSTEM via a specially crafted DLL file.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve-requests@bitdefender.com	https://www.bitdefender.com/support/security-advisories/untrusted-search-path-vulnerability-bitdefender-antivirus-free-2020-va-8422/	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	bitdefender	antivirus_2020	*

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GHSA-W6F7-5V79-V5CG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-01-15 18:30 – Updated: 2025-02-07 21:31

Details

An untrusted search path vulnerability in testinitsigs.exe as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 allows a low-privilege attacker to execute code as SYSTEM via a specially crafted DLL file.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


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

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

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GSD-2020-8094

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21

Details

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

Aliases

CVE-2020-8094

Aliases

CVE-2020-8094

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Action not permitted

CVE-2020-8094 (GCVE-0-2020-8094)

FKIE_CVE-2020-8094

GHSA-W6F7-5V79-V5CG

GSD-2020-8094

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