CVE-2007-0898

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in clamd in Clam AntiVirus ClamAV before 0.90 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the id MIME header parameter in a multi-part message.

Affected products

Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: through 0.88.6; 0.15, 0.20, 0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 0.24 (+41)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=476
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Feb/0004.html
http://osvdb.org/32282
http://secunia.com/advisories/24183
http://secunia.com/advisories/24187
http://secunia.com/advisories/24192
http://secunia.com/advisories/24319
http://secunia.com/advisories/24332
http://secunia.com/advisories/24425
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

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