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CVE-2005-2384

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.

Published: Jul 27, 2005 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (3)

Vendor Product Version
alwil avast_antivirus 4.6.460
alwil avast_antivirus 4.6.665
alwil avast_antivirus 4.6.665

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-v34h-4v23-vppf

Directory traversal vulnerability in a third-party compression library (UNACEV2.DLL), as used in...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 5.0 / 10
EPSS Score 3.49%

Top 12% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 21 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub