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GHSA-V3CG-M279-6WH2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:10 – Updated: 2022-05-24 17:10

Details

Avast AntiTrack before 1.5.1.172 and AVG Antitrack before 2.0.0.178 proxies traffic to HTTPS sites but does not validate certificates, and thus a man-in-the-middle can host a malicious website using a self-signed certificate. No special action necessary by the victim using AntiTrack with "Allow filtering of HTTPS traffic for tracking detection" enabled. (This is the default configuration.)

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  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:10:30Z",
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CVE-2020-8987 (GCVE-0-2020-8987)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-03-09 16:38 – Updated: 2024-08-04 10:19

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.avast.com/hacker-hall-of-fame/en/rese…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.davideade.com/2020/03/avast-antitrack.html	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public ?

2020-03-06 00:00

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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.
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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.

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GHSA-V3CG-M279-6WH2

CVE-2020-8987 (GCVE-0-2020-8987)

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