CVE-2005-2384

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Published Jul 27, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 3.5% KEV · Not listed

Description

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:4.6.460::server:::::
	cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:4.6.665::home:::::
	cpe:2.3:a:alwil:avast_antivirus:4.6.665::pro:::::

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-2385	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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 3.5% (3.487% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/15776
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544
http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Alwil Avast Antivirus

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 10:22 PM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Jul 27, 2005, 4:00 AM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 10:22 PM
Reserved: Jul 27, 2005, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:14 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Jul 27, 2005, 4:00 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:14 PM

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