CVE-2005-2384
Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast!
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.49% probability · 89th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- alwil/avast antivirus
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 3.5% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15776Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544
- http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/15776Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544
- http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.