Vulnerability in Alwil Avast Antivirus
CVE-2005-2384
Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.035 (89.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.035 · newest: 0.035 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Alwil Avast Antivirus — versions 4.6.460, 4.6.665
References
- secunia.com/advisories/15776 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)