High severity7.1NVD Advisory· Published Apr 21, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-8099

Description

A vulnerability in the improper handling of junctions in Bitdefender Antivirus Free can allow an unprivileged user to substitute a quarantined file, and restore it to a privileged location. This issue affects: Bitdefender Antivirus Free versions prior to 1.0.17.

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Affected products

Bitdefender/Antivirus 2020
cpe:2.3:a:bitdefender:antivirus_2020:*:*:*:*:free:*:*:*
Range: <1.0.17
Bitdefender/Antivirusllm-fuzzy2 versions
<1.0.17+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <1.0.17
- (no CPE)range: unspecified

Patches

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References

www.bitdefender.com/support/security-advisories/link-resolution-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-bitdefender-antivirus-free-va-8387/nvdVendor Advisory

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