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Vulnerability record · CVE-2005-3211 · published 14 October 2005

CVE-2005-3211: Softwin bitdefender antivirus vulnerability

Softwin · Bitdefender Antivirus

Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of BitDefender Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.

5.1 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 1.9% · top 21.3%
5.1CVSS 2.0 base score
1.9%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
4References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Multiple interpretation error in unspecified versions of BitDefender Antivirus allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a malicious executable in a specially crafted RAR file with malformed central and local headers, which can still be opened by products such as Winrar and PowerZip, even though they are rejected as corrupted by Winzip and BitZipper.

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112879611919750&w=2
http://shadock.net/secubox/AVCraftedArchive.html ExploitVendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112879611919750&w=2
http://shadock.net/secubox/AVCraftedArchive.html ExploitVendor Advisory

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Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2005-3211), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.