CVE-2005-3401

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-3401 · Published 01/11/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3401 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting thehacker (thehacker).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
thehacker thehacker	`= 5.8.4.128`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple interpretation error in TheHacker 5.8.4.128 allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a file such as BAT, HTML, and EML with an "MZ" magic byte sequence which is normally associated with EXE, which causes the file to be treated as a safe type that could still be executed as a dangerous file type by applications on the end system, as demonstrated by a "triple headed" program that contains EXE, EML, and HTML content, aka the "magic byte bug."

References

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