CVE-2019-15961

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software Email Parsing Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jan 15, 2020
Updated
Nov 15, 2024
Reserved
Sep 6, 2019

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Description

A vulnerability in the email parsing module Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.102.0, 0.101.4 and prior could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to inefficient MIME parsing routines that result in extremely long scan times of specially formatted email files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to scan the crafted email file indefinitely, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hcisco

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ClamAVClamAV
  • 0.102.0 and earlierAffected
  • before 0.101.4Affected

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