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

Published Jan 15, 2025

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

Vendor solution

The vulnerability was fixed in Bitdefender Antivirus Free version 1.0.16.152. The fix has been automatically applied to affected instances.

Weaknesses (1)

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner Bitdefender
Published Jan 15, 2025
Updated Jan 15, 2025
Reserved Jan 28, 2020
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Jan 15, 2025
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner Bitdefender
Published Jan 15, 2025
Updated Jan 15, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2020-29005