CVE-2005-2582: Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Unix/Linux File Servers 5.0-5 uses world-writable permissions for the (1) log and (2) license directory, which allows local users to delete log files, append to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on kavmonitor.log, or delete license keys and prevent keepup2date from properly executing.

Affected products

• Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus: version 5.0.5 only

Published 2005-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.