CVE-2006-5938

Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus before 7.1.407 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors involving an uninitialized variable and a crafted CAB file.

Published: 2006-11-16 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5938 is rated Moderate Risk (60.9/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.45%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5938

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 2025-03-30 0.86% 0.45% -0.41%
2 2025-03-29 0.45% 0.86% +0.41%
3 2025-03-17 0.45%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5938

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
10.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5938

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5938

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-5938: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5938

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5938

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
grisoft avg_antivirus 7.0 cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
grisoft avg_antivirus 7.0.251 cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0.251:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
grisoft avg_antivirus 7.0.323 cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.0.323:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
grisoft avg_antivirus 7.1.308 cpe:2.3:a:grisoft:avg_antivirus:7.1.308:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5938

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