Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU26639

Command Injection in clamscan - CVE-2020-7613

Published: April 7, 2020 / Updated: September 22, 2021

Vulnerability identifier: #VU26639

CSH Severity: High

CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7613

CWE-ID: CWE-77

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the "_is_clamav_binary" function in "Index.js". A remote attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

Affected software

clamscan
Arch Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2020-7613

Install update from vendor's website.

clamscan - update to 1.3.0

External References

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CLAMSCAN-564113
https://github.com/kylefarris/clamscan/blob/master/index.js#L34

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