CVE-2020-8987

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…

published March 9, 2020

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00507 · 42.3th percentile
Published
2020-03-09T16:38Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 MAR 16:38Z
    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…
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