CVE-2006-2427: Clam Anti-Virus Clamav

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

freshclam in (1) Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) 0.88 and (2) ClamXav 1.0.3h and earlier does not drop privileges before processing the config-file command line option, which allows local users to read portions of arbitrary files when an error message displays the first line of the target file.

Affected products

Published 2006-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.