What is CVE-2020-9399?

CVE-2020-9399 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Avast Antivirus For Linux, classified under CWE-436. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-28.

How severe is CVE-2020-9399?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Avast Antivirus For Linux

CVE-2020-9399

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.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Avast Antivirus_for_linux
Avast Antivirus_pro
Avast Antivirus_pro_plus
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-436

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-9399?: CVE-2020-9399 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Avast Antivirus For Linux, classified under CWE-436. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-02-28.
How severe is CVE-2020-9399?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.