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Cisco Warns of High-Severity ClamAV Vulnerabilities With Public PoC

Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit the bugs to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

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Cisco on Friday warned that its Secure Endpoint Connector products on Windows, macOS, and Linux are affected by seven ClamAV vulnerabilities that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) conditions, including two with public proof-of-concept (PoC) code.

ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) is an open source, cross-platform malware detection engine that provides a multi-threaded virtual scanner, email filtering, and automatic database updates.

The security defects, tracked as CVE-2026-20337 to CVE-2026-20339 and CVE-2026-20345 to CVE-2026-20348, were discovered in ClamAV’s parsers for ZIP, GPT, PESpin, PDF, Mach-O, and XAR file formats.

Patches for the bugs were included in ClamAV version 1.5.4, which also includes the patch for a path traversal weakness in WinRAR for Windows that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Shortly after ClamAV rolled out the fixes, Cisco published an advisory warning that PoC code targeting CVE-2026-20337 and CVE-2026-20338 exists.

According to the company, no workaround exists for any of the vulnerabilities and security updates addressing them will be rolled out in August for all Secure Endpoint Connector products.

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The security defects, Cisco says, pose a high risk to Windows users, “because those platforms run the ClamAV scanning process in a privileged security context.”

On macOS and Linux, the flaws pose a medium-severity risk, as the ClamAV scanning process runs on them with lower privileges.

Secure Endpoint Private Cloud is not affected, but the Secure Endpoint Connector software is impacted, and customers are advised to push the available patches (included in Secure Endpoint Private Cloud releases 4.2.8 and later) from the cloud to their endpoints.

The company says it is not aware of any of these vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild.

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Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.

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