CVE-2022-20796

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

On May 4, 2022, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library versions 0.103.5 and earlier and 0.104.2 and earlier was disclosed: A vulnerability in Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) versions 0.103.4, 0.103.5, 0.104.1, and 0.104.2 could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause a denial of service condition on an affected device. For a description of this vulnerability, see the ClamAV blog.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-20796.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-20796

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed0.105.0-1
debian debianbookwormfixed0.103.6+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.103.6+dfsg-0+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed0.103.6+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed0.103.6+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.103.6+dfsg-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.