What is CVE-2016-1372?

CVE-2016-1372 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clamav, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-1372?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Clamav

CVE-2016-1372

ClamAV (aka Clam AntiVirus) before 0.99.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted 7z file.

Published 2016-10-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Clamav
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 16.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

blog.clamav.net/2016/05/clamav-0992-has-been-released.html (Vendor Advisory)
foxglovesecurity.com/2016/06/13/finding-pearls-fuzzing-clamav/ (Technical Description, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/93221 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.clamav.net/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking)
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3093-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-1372?: CVE-2016-1372 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clamav, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2016-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-1372?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.