VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-2427

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-05-17
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

freshclam in (1) Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and (2) ClamXav 1.0.3h and earlier does not drop privileges before processing the config-file command line option, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files when an error message displays the first line of the target file.

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