Out-of-bounds Write Affecting clamav package, versions [,1.4.5)[1.4.0,1.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CLAMAV-17812666
  • published4 Jul 2026
  • disclosed1 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-20213  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade clamav to version 1.4.5, 1.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the PE file parser process. An attacker can cause the scanning process to terminate and disrupt service availability by submitting a specially crafted Portable Executable file for scanning, which triggers memory corruption due to improper boundary checks.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1