VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-1442

MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 98.9%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 98.9%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

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.

CVSS 2.0: 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS: 98.92% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-264
Affected: aladdin/esafe · antiy/avl sdk · cat/quick heal · f-secure/f-secure anti-virus · fortinet/fortinet antivirus · kaspersky/kaspersky anti-virus · mcafee/gateway · mcafee/scan engine · pandasecurity/panda antivirus · rising-global/rising antivirus · sophos/sophos anti-virus
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 98.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.