CVE-2015-5662

MEDIUM 6.4CVE-2015-5662 · Published 18/10/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-5662 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability affecting avast antivirus (avast).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.0%, higher than 87.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
avast antivirus avast	`≤ 151017-1`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN25576608/index.html · Vendor Advisory
jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000160 · Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1033860

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