Vulnerability in Clam Anti-Virus Clamav
CVE-2006-6406
Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) 0.88.6 allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.
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: 0.033 (87.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 87.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.032 · newest: 0.033 · change: +0.001
Affected products
- Clam Anti-Virus Clamav — versions 0.88.6
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461 (vdb-entry)
- kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-14.txt
- secunia.com/advisories/23460 (third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4948 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1238 (vendor-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_78_clamav.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/23379 (third-party-advisory)
- www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)