The vulnerability of the ClamAV antivirus program lies in the improper restriction of recursive references to objects in the DTDS, which allows a hacker to gain access to confidential information.

The vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library relates to the possibility of replacing the XML payload, which may lead to the insertion of an external payload. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to send specially created XML code to the antivirus software and to read bytes...