CVE-2009-0042

Anti Spyware vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

4.3%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the Arclib library (arclib.dll) before 7.3.0.15 in the CA Anti-Virus engine for CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise 7.1, r8, and r8.1; Anti-Virus 2007 v8 and 2008; Internet Security Suite 2007 v3 and 2008; and other CA products allow remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malformed archive file.

Affected vendor

Broadcom

Affected product

Anti Spyware

CVSS vector

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

Published

2009-01-28

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 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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