Clam AntiVirus PE File Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (Cisco ClamAV)

CVE-2019-1798
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 1.10 % · percentile 66 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
cisco
NVD status
Modified

Description

A vulnerability in the Portable Executable (PE) file scanning functionality of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.101.1 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to a lack of proper input and validation checking mechanisms for PE files sent an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed PE files to the device running an affected version ClamAV Software. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause an out-of-bounds read condition, resulting in a crash that could result in a denial of service condition on an affected device.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · psirt@cisco.com (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Cisco · ClamAVaffected unspecified ≤ 0.101.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD