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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2007-2845

Heap-based buffer overflow in the CAB unpacker in avast!

HIGH 9.3EPSS 6.28%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the CAB unpacker in avast! Anti-Virus Managed Client before 4.7.700 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CAB archive, resulting from an "integer cast around".

CVSS 2.0
9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
6.28% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
avast/avast antivirus
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.