THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-3699
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-3699

Antivirus Scan Engine vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
The Decomposer component in multiple Symantec products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain value in the PACK_SIZE field of a RAR archive file header.
Affected vendor
Symantec
Affected product
Antivirus Scan Engine
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2007-10-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-3699

  • Confirm whether Symantec Antivirus Scan Engine is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-3699.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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