CVE-2008-5050

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.083 · 95 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
8.26% (95th) EPSS
CVSS 9.3 · high
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83 products
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Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Off-by-one error in the get_unicode_name function (libclamav/vba_extract.c) in Clam Anti-Virus (ClamAV) before 0.94.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10
v2.07.9highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary
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affected products (83)

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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2008-11-13modified 2026-06-16
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references (50)

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