HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-6904

Anti Virus vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
10.6%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sophos SAVScan 4.33.0 for Linux, and possibly other products and versions, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted files that have been packed with (1) armadillo, (2) asprotect, or (3) asprotectSKE.
Affected vendor
Sophos
Affected product
Anti Virus
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2009-08-06

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 10.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Sophos Anti Virus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-6904.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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