Vulnerability in clamav
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A vulnerability tracked as ALPINE-CVE-2021-1252 has been found in clamav.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade clamav to 0.103.2-r0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "clamav ALPINE-CVE-2021-1252" on the vendor's site.
ALPINE-CVE-2021-1252 (clamav)
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 0.103.2-r0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in clamav.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of clamav.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.103.2-r0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'clamav' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1
Identify exposureidentify
grep -r 'clamav' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
clamavを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
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Apply patchpatch
Upgrade clamav to 0.103.2-r0ステージング環境で 0.103.2-r0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3
Post-deployment verificationverify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.11 | clamav |
< 0.103.2-r0 |
0.103.2-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.12 | clamav |
< 0.103.2-r0 |
0.103.2-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.13 | clamav |
< 0.103.2-r0 |
0.103.2-r0 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability in the Excel XLM macro parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software versions 0.103.0 and 0.103.1 could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper error handling that may result in an infinite loop. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted Excel file to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process hang, resulting in a denial of service condition.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security.alpinelinux.org