CVE-2005-0644

Exp

Buffer overflow in McAfee Scan Engine 4320 with DAT version before 4436 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed LHA file with a type 2 header file name field, a variant of CVE-2005-0643.

Published: 2005-05-02 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2005-0644 is rated High Exploit Risk (83.5/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 23.87%, 96th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +8.52% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-0644

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-0644

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-07-30 15.35% 23.87% +8.52%
2 2025-03-30 12.60% 15.35% +2.75%
3 2025-03-29 12.60%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-0644

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-0644

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-0644

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mcafee antivirus_engine 4.3.20 cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:antivirus_engine:4.3.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-0644

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