{"id":"CVE-2005-2384","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-2384","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:33:16.431Z","title":"Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast!","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.","published":"2005-07-27T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:14:47.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":["alwil/avast antivirus"],"epss":{"score":0.03487,"percentile":0.89048,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.49%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/15776","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/15776","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2384","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}