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CVE-2025-7005

Uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Windows PE file may allow Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue affects Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Norton Antivirus, Avast One, and Avast Business Antivirus on Windows, macOS, and Linux for virus definition builds before VPS 25031700. The affected scanning logic is delivered through a shared Gen Digital virus definition update stream. The same stream feeds the consumer antivirus products l
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:370f5bbe5888e188898d65ba1474c9d068bb92557573111bc8ec21ec7098bbee
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 5 assertions

{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Norton Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/2

{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Avast Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/0

{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Avast One","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/3

{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Avast Business Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/4

{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"AVG Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Affected products and versions

5 source assertions
{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Norton Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/2
{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Avast Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/0
{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Avast One","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/3
{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"Avast Business Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/4
{"defaultStatus":"affected","platforms":["Windows","macOS","Linux"],"product":"AVG Antivirus","vendor":"Gen Digital","versions":[{"lessThan":"25031700","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"custom"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/affected/1

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"LOCAL","availabilityImpact":"HIGH","baseScore":5.5,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"NONE","scope":"UNCHANGED","userInteraction":"REQUIRED","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-674","description":"CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

1 source assertion
{"url":"https://www.gendigital.com/us/en/contact-us/security-advisories/"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:cd72d1a741724d2c1783d485a12a0bbf76c82c457c9c44e3f9b52b64724f9bdb · sha256:caef6ec2d84c7f93… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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