SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-27534

Kaspersky Anti-Virus products for home and Kaspersky Endpoint Security with antivirus databases released before 12 March 2022 had a bug in a data parsing module that potentially allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.13%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.13%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Kaspersky Anti-Virus products for home and Kaspersky Endpoint Security with antivirus databases released before 12 March 2022 had a bug in a data parsing module that potentially allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The fix was delivered automatically. Credits: Georgy Zaytsev (Positive Technologies).

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.13% probability · 87th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
kaspersky/anti-virus · kaspersky/endpoint security · kaspersky/internet security · kaspersky/security cloud · kaspersky/small office security · kaspersky/total security
Source
vulnerability@kaspersky.com

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