CVE-2022-20796

medium

Description

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.

References

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-dos-vL9x58p4

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/7RV6BLIATIJE74SQ6NG5ZC4JK5MMDQ2R/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/N4NNBIJVG6Z4PDIKUZXTYXICYUAYAZ56/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BX5ZXNHP4NFYQ5BFSKY3WT7NTBZUYG7L/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00004.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2022-05-04

Updated: 2022-07-01

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Impact Score: 6.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: MEDIUM