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CVE-2007-0898
Directory traversal vulnerability in clamd in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in clamd in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the id MIME header parameter in a multi-part message.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
20
- clamav-mimeheader-directory-traversal(32535) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 24187 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24192 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 22581 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- DSA-1263 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1017660 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 29420 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24332 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-03-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 24425 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2007:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-200703-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 24319 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32282 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 24183 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070215 Multiple Vendor ClamAV MIME Parsing Directory Traversal Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0623 (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-2007-0894 (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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