CVE-2012-1438

Comodo Antivirus vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

14.1%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

The Microsoft Office file parser in Comodo Antivirus 7425 and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an Office file with a ustar character sequence at a certain location. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Office parser implementations.

Affected vendor

Comodo

Affected product

Comodo Antivirus

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2012-03-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 14.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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