Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-4953

Title: Symantec Antivirus RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-4953.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Nov 14, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
9.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-4953: The decomposer engine in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12.0, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (SAVCE) 10.x, and Symantec Scan Engine (SSE) before 5.2.8 does not properly perform bounds checks of the contents of CAB archives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Impacted Vendors

T
trustix 1
S
symantec 3
T
trend_micro 1
A
avast 1
M
microsoft 1

Reference Links

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/985625 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56399 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027726 http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20121107_00 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/985625 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56399 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027726 http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20121107_00
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-4953 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.