4.3
MEDIUM
CVE-2012-1446
"Quick Heal, McAfee, Symantec, Norman, eSafe, Kaspersky, McAfee Gateway, Sophos, CA, Antiy, PC Tools, Rising, Fortinet, Panda ELF File Encoder Bypass Vulnerability"
Description

The ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, CA eTrust Vet Antivirus 36.1.8511, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, 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 encoding 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 :

July 28, 2012, 3:30 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.9

Exploitability Score :

8.6
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2012-1446 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 Norman norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware
1 Pandasecurity panda_antivirus
1 Rising-global rising_antivirus
1 Symantec endpoint_protection
1 Sophos sophos_anti-virus
1 Kaspersky kaspersky_anti-virus
1 Pc_tools pc_tools_antivirus
1 Cat quick_heal
1 Fortinet fortinet_antivirus
1 Antiy avl_sdk
1 Ca etrust_vet_antivirus
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2012-1446 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-2012-1446 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

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

97.36 }} 0.05%

score

0.99920

percentile

CVSS2 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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