CVE-2005-0218: Clam Anti-Virus Clamav

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ClamAV 0.80 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass virus scanning via a base64 encoded image in a data: (RFC 2397) URL.

Affected products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: version 0.51 only; version 0.52 only; version 0.53 only; version 0.54 only; version 0.60 only; version 0.65 only; …

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.