CVE-2006-6293

F Prot Antivirus vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

16.0%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in FRISK Software F-Prot Antivirus before 4.6.7 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CHM file. NOTE: this issue has at least a partial overlap with CVE-2006-6294.

Affected vendor

F Prot

Affected product

F Prot Antivirus

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2006-12-05

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 16.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether F Prot F Prot Antivirus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-6293.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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