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CVE-2005-2384

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2005-07-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in avast! Antivirus Home/Professional Edition 4.6.665 and Server Edition 4.6.460, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via an ACE archive containing filenames with (1) .. or (2) absolute pathnames.

Affected Platforms

Alwil Avast Antivirus

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References