HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-6627

Bitdefender vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
7.4%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the packed PE file parsing implementation in BitDefender products before 20060829, including Antivirus, Antivirus Plus, Internet Security, Mail Protection for Enterprises, and Online Scanner; and BitDefender products for Microsoft ISA Server and Exchange 5.5 through 2003; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka the "cevakrnl.xmd vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Softwin
Affected product
Bitdefender
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2006-12-18

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 7.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-6627

  • Confirm whether Softwin Bitdefender is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-6627.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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