What is CVE-2013-7088?

CVE-2013-7088 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Clamav, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-11-15.

How severe is CVE-2013-7088?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Clamav

CVE-2013-7088

ClamAV before 0.97.7 has buffer overflow in the libclamav component

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-11-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.031 (87.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.031 · newest: 0.031 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Clamav
Debian Linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 17, 18

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow)

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-08.xml (Third Party Advisory)
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-7088 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/13/1 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/58546 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2013-7088?: CVE-2013-7088 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Clamav, classified under Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input (Classic Buffer Overflow). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2019-11-15.
How severe is CVE-2013-7088?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.