Vulnerability · Published Feb 17, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2025-1366MicroWord eScan Antivirus VirusPopUp strcpy stack-based overflow

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity stack buffer overflow in eScan Antivirus from MicroWord. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability was found in MicroWord eScan Antivirus 7.0.32 on Linux and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function strcpy of the component VirusPopUp. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
MicroWord	eScan Antivirus	7.0.32

Weakness: CWE-121, CWE-119 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

VDB-295970 | MicroWord eScan Antivirus VirusPopUp strcpy stack-based overflow vdb-entry, technical-description
VDB-295970 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
https://github.com/dmknght/FIS_RnD/blob/main/escan_av_usb_protection_multiple_vulns.md exploit