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CVE-2006-2427

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-05-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

freshclam in (1) Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and (2) ClamXav 1.0.3h and earlier does not drop privileges before processing the config-file command line option, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files when an error message displays the first line of the target file.

Affected products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: 0.88
• Clam Anti-Virus Clamxav: 1.0.3h

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/20085
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/912
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016086
• http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2006-0514a%5D.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434008/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1807
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26453
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20085
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/912
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016086
• http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2006-0514a%5D.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434008/100/0/threaded

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