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Improper Certificate Validation in Bitdefender Total Security (VA-8957)

Publication date: June 22nd, 2021

CVE ID:

CVE-2020-15732

CVSS scrore:

6.5 - https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected vendors:

Bitdefender

Affected products:

Bitdefender Total Security

Vulnerability details:

Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in the Online Threat Prevention module as used in Bitdefender Total Security allows an attacker to potentially bypass HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) checks.

This issue affects:

Bitdefender Total Security versions prior to 25.0.7.29.
Bitdefender Internet Security versions prior to 25.0.7.29.
Bitdefender Antivirus Plus versions prior to 25.0.7.29.

Additional details:

An automatic update to version 25.0.7.29 fixes the issue.

Credit:

Ollie Killean