Vulnerability in clamav (ALPINE-CVE-2021-1405)

Summary

Vulnerability in clamav (ALPINE-CVE-2021-1405). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.103.2-r0 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A vulnerability in the email parsing module in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Software version 0.103.1 and all prior versions could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper variable initialization that may result in an NULL pointer read. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted email to an affected device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause the ClamAV scanning process crash, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

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A vulnerability tracked as ALPINE-CVE-2021-1405 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-2021-1405" on the vendor's site.

ALPINE-CVE-2021-1405 (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.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (unclassified) exists in clamav.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of clamav.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 0.103.2-r0.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

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

1
Identify exposure identify
```
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。
2
Apply patch patch
```
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。
3
Post-deployment verification verify
```
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

Alpine:v3.11 clamav

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.103.2-r0"}]}]

Alpine:v3.12 clamav

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.103.2-r0"}]}]

Alpine:v3.13 clamav

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.103.2-r0"}]}]

References

advisory security.alpinelinux.org