CVE-2020-12254: Avira Antivirus

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Avira Antivirus before 5.0.2003.1821 on Windows allows privilege escalation or a denial of service via abuse of a symlink.

Affected products

• Avira Antivirus: before 5.0.2003.1821 (fixed in 5.0.2003.1821)

Published 2020-04-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.