clamav clamav CVE-2022-20796 vulnerability in Clamav and Other Products
Published on May 4, 2022

ClamAV Truncated File Denial of Service Vulnerability Affecting Cisco Products: April 2022

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On May 4, 2022, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library versions 0.103.5 and earlier and 0.104.2 and earlier was disclosed: A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.103.4, 0.103.5, 0.104.1, and 0.104.2 could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. For a description of this vulnerability, see the ClamAV blog.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2022-20796 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

Untrusted Pointer Dereference

The program obtains a value from an untrusted source, converts this value to a pointer, and dereferences the resulting pointer.


Products Associated with CVE-2022-20796

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Clamav
 
Cisco Secure Endpoint
 
Canonical Ubuntu Linux
 
Fedora Project Fedora
 
Debian Linux
 

Affected Versions

Cisco AMP for Endpoints Version n/a is affected by CVE-2022-20796

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.03%
Percentile
9.66%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.