Vulnerability in clamav
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A vulnerability tracked as ALPINE-CVE-2022-20792 has been found in clamav.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
What to do: upgrade clamav to 0.103.6-r0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "clamav ALPINE-CVE-2022-20792" on the vendor's site.
ALPINE-CVE-2022-20792 (clamav)
Attack vector: local / unauthenticated
Patched: 0.103.6-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: ?. Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 0.103.6-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 0.103.6-r0ステージング環境で 0.103.6-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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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:v3.12 | clamav |
≥ 0.104.0, < 0.103.6-r0 |
0.103.6-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.13 | clamav |
≥ 0.104.0, < 0.103.6-r0 |
0.103.6-r0 |
Original description The description as published by the source.
A vulnerability in the regex module used by the signature database load module of Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.104.0 through 0.104.2 and LTS version 0.103.5 and prior versions could allow an authenticated, local attacker to crash ClamAV at database load time, and possibly gain code execution. The vulnerability is due to improper bounds checking that may result in a multi-byte heap buffer overwflow write. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by placing a crafted CDB ClamAV signature database file in the ClamAV database directory. An exploit could allow the attacker to run code as the clamav user.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
References
- advisory security.alpinelinux.org