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CVE-2005-2056

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2056 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions prior to 0.86.1. Specifically, a crafted Quantum archive can cause the application to crash when processed by the Quantum archive decompressor. The CVSS score of 2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) indicates a network-based attack with high access complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.85CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.85:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.85.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.85.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.86CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.86:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0234 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/15811
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-737
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-23.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_38_clamav.html
securityfocus.com / bid/14058