CVE-2006-2427

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26453

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1807

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434008/100/0/threaded

http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA%5B2006-0514a%5D.txt

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/912

http://secunia.com/advisories/20085

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-05-17

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00047