CVE-2020-8103

Link Resolution Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Bitdefender Antivirus Free (VA-8604)

State
Published
Severity
7.2 High
Published
Jun 5, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Jan 28, 2020

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Description

A vulnerability in the improper handling of symbolic links in Bitdefender Antivirus Free can allow an unprivileged user to substitute a quarantined file, and restore it to a privileged location. This issue affects Bitdefender Antivirus Free versions prior to 1.0.17.178.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HBitdefender

Weaknesses

  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Bitdefender Antivirus FreeBitdefender
  • before 1.0.17.178Affected

References

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