CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-8987

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Mar 09, 2020 | Modified: Mar 10, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.4
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.)

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Antitrack Avast * 1.5.1.172 (excluding)
Avg_antitrack Avast * 2.0.0.178 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References