CVE-2009-1784 describes a critical vulnerability in the AVG parsing engine 8.5 323, affecting various AVG anti-virus products. Remote attackers can bypass malware detection by crafting malicious RAR and ZIP archives. This vulnerability carries a maximum CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with a network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.0.156CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avg:avg_anti-virus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0.710CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avg:avg_anti-virus:6.0.710:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avg:avg_anti-virus:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.251CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avg:avg_anti-virus:7.0.251:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0.323CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avg:avg_anti-virus:7.0.323:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.