CVE-2008-1835
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
ClamAV before 0.93 allows remote attackers to bypass the scanning enging via a RAR file with an invalid version number, which cannot be parsed by ClamAV but can be extracted by Winrar.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1835)
- Published
- April 16, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1835 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
- clam anti-virus / clamav
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00009.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29891
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30328
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31576
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31882
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-19.xml
- http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/08/up2date_asg_v7300_ga_released.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:088
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28784
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41874
- https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=541
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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