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CVE-2008-1389

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1389 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in ClamAV versions prior to 0.94, specifically within the libclamav/chmunpack.c component's CHM parser. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this by providing a specially crafted, malformed CHM file, leading to an application crash due to an invalid memory access. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low complexity, but only results in availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.93.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clam_anti-virus:clamav:0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0338 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1389

clamav: multiple security fixes in 0.94 (CVE-2008-1389, CVE-2008-3912, CVE-2008-3913, CVE-2008-3914)

References

int21.de / cve/CVE-2008-1389-clamav-chd.html
kolab.org / security/kolab-vendor-notice-22.txt
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
secunia.com / advisories/31725
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/31906
secunia.com / advisories/31982
secunia.com / advisories/32030
secunia.com / advisories/32222
secunia.com / advisories/32699
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200809-18.xml
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
Patch
support.apple.com / kb/HT3216
svn.clamav.net / svn/clamav-devel/trunk/ChangeLog
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00332.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00348.html
wwws.clamav.net / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/30994
securityfocus.com / bid/31681
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2484
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2564
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2780