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CVE-2007-6265· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Unspecified vulnerability in avast! 4 Home and Professional Editions before 4.7.1098 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a

Unspecified vulnerability in avast! 4 Home and Professional Editions before 4.7.1098 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via a crafted TAR archive.

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v2.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Dec 7, 2007
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.3% · 70th percentile
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Action score

27

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.3%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
avastavast antivirus home
avastavast antivirus professional

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • avast avast antivirus home4.0
  • avast avast antivirus home4.6
  • avast avast antivirus home4.6.652
  • avast avast antivirus home4.6.655
  • avast avast antivirus home4.6.665
  • avast avast antivirus home4.6.691
  • avast avast antivirus home4.7.1043
  • avast avast antivirus home4.7.827
  • avast avast antivirus home4.7.844
  • avast avast antivirus home4.7.869
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.0
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.6
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.6.603
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.6.652
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.6.665
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.6.691
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.7.1043
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.7.827
  • avast avast antivirus professional4.7.844

Same product

avast: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2010-0705Aavmker4.sys in avast! 4.8 through 4.8.1368.0 and 5.0 before 5.0.418.0 running on Windows 2000 and XP does not properly validate input to IO
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2009-4049Heap-based buffer overflow in aswRdr.sys (aka the TDI RDR driver) in avast! Home and Professional 4.8.1356.0 allows local users to cause a d
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2009-3524Unspecified vulnerability in ashWsFtr.dll in avast! Home and Professional for Windows before 4.8.1356 has unknown impact and local attack ve
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2009-3522Stack-based buffer overflow in aswMon2.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows 4.8.1351, and possibly other versions before 4.8.1356
    28Monitor
  • CVE-2009-3523aavmKer4.sys in avast! Home and Professional for Windows before 4.8.1356 does not properly validate input to IOCTLs (1) 0xb2d6000c and (2) 0
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2008-1625aavmker4.sys in avast! Home and Professional 4.7 for Windows does not properly validate input to IOCTL 0xb2d60030, which allows local users
    27Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

    If successful

    Confidentiality
    P · data can be read
    Integrity
    P · data or configuration can be modified
    Availability
    P · the service can be disrupted
    Attack complexity
    M
    Confidentiality impact
    P
    Integrity impact
    P
    Availability impact
    P

    Weakness class (CWE)

    CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    CVSS vector

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

    nvd-primary

    Attack context

    MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

    ATT&CK techniques

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    Change log

    No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

    References

    Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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