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ClamAV CVE-2026-20345

| EUVDEUVD-2026-54507 HIGH
Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)
2026-08-07 cisco GHSA-775x-c574-8mff
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: cisco
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Vendor (cisco) PRIMARY
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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7.5 HIGH

File submission to a scanner is inherently network-accessible; no privileges or user interaction needed; confirmed impact is availability-only (process crash), with integrity and confidentiality unconfirmed.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (cisco).

CVSS VectorVendor: cisco

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Analysis Generated
Aug 07, 2026 - 17:09 vuln.today
CVE Published
Aug 07, 2026 - 16:42 cve.org
HIGH 7.5

DescriptionCVE.org

A vulnerability in the GPT file format parser of ClamAV could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a DoS condition or possibly other expanded impacts as a result of memory corruption on an affected device.

This vulnerability is due to improper handling of an endian conversion operation, which may result in an out-of-bounds buffer write. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a crafted GPT file to be scanned by ClamAV on an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process to terminate, resulting in a DoS condition on the affected software.

AnalysisAI

Remote unauthenticated exploitation of ClamAV's GPT file format parser can crash the scanning process and potentially corrupt memory on affected Cisco Secure Endpoint deployments. The root cause is a faulty endian conversion in the GPT parser that writes out-of-bounds on the stack (CWE-121), reachable by any attacker who can submit a file for scanning - a condition met by default in mail gateway, web proxy, and endpoint deployments. No public exploit code exists and this CVE is not listed in CISA KEV at time of analysis, but the CVSS AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N profile means exploitation requires no special access and is trivially automatable.

Technical ContextAI

ClamAV, embedded in Cisco Secure Endpoint (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:cisco:cisco_secure_endpoint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), includes a parser for GUID Partition Table (GPT) formatted disk images. CWE-121 (Stack-based Buffer Overflow) identifies the root cause class: when processing a GPT file, the parser performs an endian conversion operation - converting multi-byte integers between byte orders - without validating the resulting value against buffer boundaries. The converted value is used to control a write offset or length, and a crafted GPT file can produce a value that causes a write past the end of a stack-allocated buffer. This class of flaw can produce deterministic denial-of-service via process termination, and depending on stack layout, could theoretically be leveraged for code execution - hence Cisco's advisory language noting 'possibly other expanded impacts.'

RemediationAI

The primary remediation is to apply the patch released by Cisco, referenced in the advisory at https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-WuuvVd26. A specific fixed version is not confirmed in the available input data - retrieve the exact target version from the advisory before patching. As a compensating control pending patching, consider restricting the types of files submitted to ClamAV for scanning by disabling GPT disk-image scanning if it is not required for your use case; this directly removes the vulnerable code path but may reduce detection coverage for disk image threats. In mail gateway deployments, blocking or quarantining disk image file types (e.g., .img, .iso) at the perimeter is a targeted workaround with the trade-off of potential false positives on legitimate attachments. Generic 'network segmentation' is not actionable here because the attack surface is the scanner's file-ingestion interface, not a network port directly.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 Affected

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