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.)
Advisories
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-29817 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.)
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T10:19:19.752Z

Reserved: 2020-02-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-8987

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-03-09T17:15:12.307

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:39:47.090

Link: CVE-2020-8987

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