Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-2845

Title: Avast Avast Antivirus RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-2845.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 24, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-2845: Heap-based buffer overflow in the CAB unpacker in avast! Anti-Virus Managed Client before 4.7.700 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted CAB archive, resulting from an "integer cast around".

Impacted Vendors

avast 1

alwil 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=118000321419384&w=2 http://osvdb.org/36523 http://secunia.com/advisories/25380 http://www.avast.com/eng/adnm-management-client-revision-history.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469469/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24132 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1935 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34477 http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=118000321419384&w=2 http://osvdb.org/36523 http://secunia.com/advisories/25380 http://www.avast.com/eng/adnm-management-client-revision-history.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469469/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24132 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1935 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34477

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-2845 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 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 24, 2007 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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.