Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1426

Title: Cat Quick Heal

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1426.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Mar 21, 2012
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
90.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1426: The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial \42\5A\68 character sequence. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different TAR parser implementations.

Impacted Vendors

A
authentium 1
R
rising-global 1
N
norman 1
J
jiangmin 1
F
frisk_software 1
R
rising 1
K
k7computing 1
C
cat 1
T
trustix 1
F
f-prot 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80407 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52585 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74241 http://osvdb.org/80406 http://osvdb.org/80407 http://osvdb.org/80409 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52585 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74241
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1426 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.