CVE-2007-3971

Exp

Integer overflow in ESET NOD32 Antivirus before 2.2289 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and disk consumption) via a crafted ASPACK packed file, which triggers an infinite loop.

Published: 2007-07-25 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-3971 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.17%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2007-3971

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-3971

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 2026-06-15 2.73% 3.17% +0.43%
2 2026-03-13 2.63% 2.73% +0.10%
3 2025-10-09 2.63%

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-3971

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-3971

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-3971

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
eset_software nod32_antivirus <= 2.2289 cpe:2.3:a:eset_software:nod32_antivirus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-3971

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