4.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2012-1442
Quick Heal, McAfee, McAfee Gateway, eSafe, Kaspersky, F-Secure, Sophos, Antiy Labs, Rising Antivirus, Fortinet, Panda Antivirus ELF Class Field Bypass Vulnerability
Description

The ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified class field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

INFO

Published Date :

March 21, 2012, 10:11 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 1:36 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2012-1442 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Mcafee gateway
2 Mcafee scan_engine
1 Aladdin esafe
1 Pandasecurity panda_antivirus
1 Rising-global rising_antivirus
1 F-secure f-secure_anti-virus
1 Sophos sophos_anti-virus
1 Kaspersky kaspersky_anti-virus
1 Cat quick_heal
1 Fortinet fortinet_antivirus
1 Antiy avl_sdk

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2012-1442 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80426
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80427
    Added Reference http://osvdb.org/80428
    Added Reference http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52598
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 21, 2012

    Action Type Old Value New Value
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-1442 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-1442 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

97.44 }} -0.02%

score

0.99960

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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