Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5938

Title: Grisoft Avg Antivirus Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5938.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 16, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5938: Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus before 7.1.407 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors involving an uninitialized variable and a crafted CAB file.

Impacted Vendors

grisoft 1

avg 1

avast 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=116343152030074&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/22811 http://www.grisoft.com/doc/36365/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4498 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30246 http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=116343152030074&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/22811 http://www.grisoft.com/doc/36365/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4498 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30246

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5938 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 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 16, 2006 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.