THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2005-1693
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2005-1693

Etrust Antivirus vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
6.9%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in Computer Associates Vet Antivirus library, as used by CA InoculateIT 6.0, eTrust Antivirus r6.0 through 7.1, eTrust Antivirus for the Gateway r7.0 and r7.1, eTrust Secure Content Manager, eTrust Intrusion Detection, BrightStor ARCserve Backup (BAB) r11.1, Vet Antivirus, Zonelabs ZoneAlarm Security Suite, and ZoneAlarm Antivirus, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a compressed VBA directory with a project name length of -1, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected vendor
Broadcom
Affected product
Etrust Antivirus
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2005-05-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-1693

  • Confirm whether Broadcom Etrust Antivirus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-1693.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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