CVE-2020-8094

HIGH 7.8CVE-2020-8094 · Published 15/01/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-8094 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting antivirus 2020 (bitdefender).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.19%, higher than 8.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.0.16.152 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
antivirus 2020 bitdefender	`< 1.0.16.152`	`1.0.16.152`

Description

An untrusted search path vulnerability in testinitsigs.exe as used in Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020 allows a low-privilege attacker to execute code as SYSTEM via a specially crafted DLL file.

References

bitdefender.com/support/security-advisories/untrusted-search-path-vulnerability-bitdefender-antivirus-free-2020-va-8422 · Vendor Advisory

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