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Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits
Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
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Cisco issued a warning about two high‑severity vulnerabilities in its Secure Endpoint Connector that let attackers crash the ClamAV scanning process, creating denial‑of‑service conditions. The flaws, identified as CVE‑2026‑20337 and CVE‑2026‑20338, reside in ClamAV’s ZIP archive parser. ClamAV is the open‑source, cross‑platform engine that scans files for malware. The vulnerabilities enable threat actors to trigger DoS attacks against the scanning process. No further details on mitigation or impact were provided.
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