Vulnerability · Published Feb 28, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-9399

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 67% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 32.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Avast AV parsing engine allows virus-detection bypass via a crafted ZIP archive. This affects versions before 12 definitions 200114-0 of Antivirus Pro, Antivirus Pro Plus, and Antivirus for Linux.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://blog.zoller.lu/p/tzo-23-2020-avast-generic-archive.html x_refsource_MISC
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Feb/35 x_refsource_MISC