THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-0994
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-0994

Sophos Anti Virus vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
21.6%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Multiple Sophos Anti-Virus products, including Anti-Virus for Windows 5.x before 5.2.1 and 4.x before 4.05, when cabinet file inspection is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a CAB file with "invalid folder count values," which leads to heap corruption.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Sophos Anti Virus
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-05-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 21.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-0994

  • Confirm whether Sophos Sophos Anti Virus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-0994.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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