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CVE-2005-1530: sophos sophos_anti-virus

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
Published 19-07-2005Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2005-1530 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in sophos sophos_anti-virus. EPSS estimates a 6.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.3% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
6.16%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 19-07-2005
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Sophos Anti-Virus 5.0.1, with "Scan inside archive files" enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption by infinite loop) via a Bzip2 archive with a large 'Extra field length' value.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

6.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 6.16% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
6.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (securityfocus.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Sophos4 products

1 vendor · 4 products

References

4 links