Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3215

Title: Multiple interpretation error in McAfee Antivirus allows virus-scan bypass via crafted RAR

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3215.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Oct 14, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.1 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.72%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3215: Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of McAfee Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.

Impacted Vendors

M
mcafee 1
K
kaspersky 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112879611919750&w=2 http://shadock.net/secubox/AVCraftedArchive.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112879611919750&w=2 http://shadock.net/secubox/AVCraftedArchive.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.1
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3215 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.