Vulnerability in Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus
CVE-2006-6408
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Linux Mail Servers 5.5.10 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: 0.021 (80.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.021 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- Kaspersky Lab Anti-Virus — versions 5.5.10
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21461 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453654/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.quantenblog.net/security/virus-scanner-bypass (Vendor Advisory)