CVE-2005-1795: Clam Anti-Virus Clamav

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The filecopy function in misc.c in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) before 0.85, on Mac OS, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a virus in a filename that contains shell metacharacters, which are not properly handled when HFS permissions prevent the file from being deleted and ditto is invoked.

Affected products

• Clam Anti-Virus Clamav: up to and including 0.84

Published 2005-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.