CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6960

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-01-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-01-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The Compression Sweep feature in WebRoot Spy Sweeper 4.5.9 and earlier does not handle non-ZIP archives, which allows remote attackers to bypass the malware detection via files with (1) RAR, (2) GZ, (3) TAR, (4) CAB, or (5) ACE compression.

Affected configurations

• webroot software spy sweeper (<= 4.5.9)

References