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A vulnerability was found in Alwil Avast Antivirus 4.6.665 (Anti-Malware Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library unacev2.dll. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.

The bug was discovered 02/23/2005. The weakness was shared 07/27/2005 by Tan Chew Keong with Secunia Research (Website). The advisory is available at secunia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-2384 since 07/27/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 154 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 23974 and 25875 are related to this item.

Productinfo

Type

• Anti-Malware Software

Vendor

• Alwil

Name

• Avast Antivirus

Version

• 4.6.665

License

• free

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Researcher: Tan Chew Keong
Organization: Secunia Research
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-2384 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1014544
Vulnerability Center: 9875 - Avast! Antivirus Directory Traversal Vulnerability via an Ace Archive, Medium
SecurityFocus: 14342 - Alwil Software Avast! Antivirus Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 15776 - avast! Antivirus ACE File Handling Two Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 14060 - UnAce "dot dot" directory traversal

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/12/2019 10:41
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (65), 06/12/2019 10:41 (7)
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