CVE-2016-3986 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in Avast antivirus products, specifically related to its authenticode parsing functionality. An attacker could exploit this by crafting a malicious Portable Executable (PE) file, leading to a denial of service and potentially arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but could result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not observed in active exploitation (KEV: No) and lacking significant community discussion or media coverage, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB (EDB-39530).
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:avast:avast:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.