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CVE-2006-0994
Multiple Sophos Anti-Virus products, including Anti-Virus for Windows 5.x before 5.2.1 and 4.x before 4.05, when cabinet file inspection…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 21.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple Sophos Anti-Virus products, including Anti-Virus for Windows 5.x before 5.2.1 and 4.x before 4.05, when cabinet file inspection is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CAB file with "invalid folder count values," which leads to heap corruption.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 21.6% · top 2.4% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-012.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016041 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 869 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- sophos-cab-parsing-bo(26305) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060508 ZDI-06-012: Sophos Anti-Virus CAB Unpacking Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 17876 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20060508 ZDI-06-012: Sophos Anti-Virus CAB Unpacking Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20028 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1730 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0997 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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