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CVE-2023-20052

MEDIUM
Published 2023-02-16T15:26:12.863Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
5.3
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.088
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 8.8% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.921
Higher than 92.1% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE

Description

On Feb 15, 2023, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library was disclosed:


A vulnerability in the DMG file parser of ClamAV versions 1.0.0 and earlier, 0.105.1 and earlier, and 0.103.7 and earlier could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device.


This vulnerability is due to enabling XML entity substitution that may result in XML external entity injection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted DMG file to be scanned by ClamAV on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to leak bytes from any file that may be read by the ClamAV scanning process.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

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Affected Products

Cisco

Cisco Secure Endpoint

Affected Versions:

6.0.9 6.0.7 6.1.5 6.1.7 6.1.9 6.2.1 6.2.5 6.2.19 6.2.9 6.3.5 6.3.1 6.3.7 6.3.3 7.0.5 7.1.1 7.1.5 1.12.1 1.12.2 1.12.5 1.12.0 1.12.6 1.12.3 1.12.7 1.12.4 1.13.0 1.13.1 1.13.2 1.11.0 1.10.2 1.10.1 1.10.0 1.14.0 1.6.0 1.9.0 1.9.1 1.8.1 1.8.0 1.8.4 1.7.0 7.2.13 7.2.7 7.2.3 7.2.11 7.2.5 7.3.3 7.3.5

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

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GHSA-pcr4-7r58-755h

Advisory Details

On Feb 15, 2023, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library was disclosed: A vulnerability in the DMG file parser of ClamAV versions 1.0.0 and earlier, 0.105.1 and earlier, and 0.103.7 and earlier could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to enabling XML entity substitution that may result in XML external entity injection. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted DMG file to be scanned by ClamAV on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to leak bytes from any file that may be read by the ClamAV scanning process.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20052
WEB https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-xxe-TcSZduhN
WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-01

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: March 1, 2023, Modified: March 13, 2023

References

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-xxe-TcSZduhN
Published: 2023-02-16T15:26:12.863Z
Last Modified: 2024-08-02T08:57:35.615Z
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