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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2008-5667

The scanning engine in VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a malformed RAR archive.

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 6.39%

Does this matter?

A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 6.4%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.

Description

The scanning engine in VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a malformed RAR archive.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
6.39% probability · 94th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 3 October 2008
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-399
Affected
virusblokada/vba32 personal antivirus
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%26 October 2026: 6.39%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 6.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-6658source ↗VBA32 Personal AntiVirus 3.12.8.x - Malformed Archive Denial of Servicewindows · LiquidWormdos3 October 2008yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.