CVE-2007-3725
The RAR VM (unrarvm.c) in Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) before 0.91 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 7.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The RAR VM (unrarvm.c) in Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) before 0.91 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted RAR archive, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- ClamAV / UnRAR - .RAR Handling Remote Null Pointer Dereference (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30291remote, linuxpublished 11 Jul 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.7% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
24
- 26231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- clamav-rarvm-dos(35367) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://kolab.org/security/kolab-vendor-notice-16.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2509 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 26164 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1340 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 26226 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26038 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070711 Advisory - Clam AntiVirus RAR File Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0924 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- GLSA-200708-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 36907 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=555 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:150 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 29420 (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
- 2007-0023 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- http://www.metaeye.org/advisories/54 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 26209 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070711 Advisory - Clam AntiVirus RAR File Handling Denial Of Service Vulnerability. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26377 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2643 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2007:015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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-2007-3709 (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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