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High VA-26-278-01 1 CVE

Canimaan Software ClamXAV local privilege escalation

Published Oct 5, 2026 · Updated Oct 5, 2026

Vendor: Canimaan Software Product: ClamXAV

Summary

ClamXAV contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Privileged Helper Tool caused by a race condition and insufficient file validation, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.0
    CVE-2026-105773

    Canimaan Software ClamXAV local privilege escalation

    Canimaan Software ClamXAV versions 3.3 - 3.11 contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Privileged Helper Tool caused by a race condition and insufficient file validation, allowing a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with system privil…

    Canimaan Software ClamXAV clamav Azure Linux

Revision history

  1. #1.0.0

    Initial publication