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HistoryDec 12, 2008 - 6:13 p.m.

CVE-2008-5522

2008-12-1218:13:00
mitre
www.cve.org

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.8%

AVG Anti-Virus 8.0.0.161, when Internet Explorer 6 or 7 is used, allows remote attackers to bypass detection of malware in an HTML document by placing an MZ header (aka “EXE info”) at the beginning, and modifying the filename to have (1) no extension, (2) a .txt extension, or (3) a .jpg extension, as demonstrated by a document containing a CVE-2006-5745 exploit.

6.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.972 High

EPSS

Percentile

99.8%