Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5662

Title: Avast Avast Antivirus Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5662.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Oct 18, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.97%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5662: Directory traversal vulnerability in Avast before 150918-0 allows remote attackers to delete or write to arbitrary files via a crafted entry in a ZIP archive.

Impacted Vendors

alwil 1

avast 1

Reference Links

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25576608/index.html http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000160 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033860 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25576608/index.html http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000160 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033860

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5662 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 18, 2015 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:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.