Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2384

Title: Alwil Avast Antivirus Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2384.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 27, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2384: Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.

Impacted Vendors

alwil 1

avast 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/15776 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544 http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html http://secunia.com/advisories/15776 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-20/advisory/ http://securitytracker.com/id?1014544 http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_revision_history.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-2384 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 27, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.