{"id":"CVE-2012-1456","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-1456","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:05:39.868Z","title":"The TAR file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command…","description":"The TAR file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, and Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR file with an appended ZIP file.  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.","published":"2012-03-21T10:11:49.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:39:34.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["aladdin/esafe","avg/avg anti-virus","cat/quick heal","comodo/comodo antivirus","emsisoft/anti-malware","eset/nod32 antivirus","f-prot/f-prot antivirus","fortinet/fortinet antivirus","ikarus/ikarus virus utilities t3 command line scanner","jiangmin/jiangmin antivirus","kaspersky/kaspersky anti-virus","mcafee/gateway","mcafee/scan engine","norman/norman antivirus \\& antispyware","pandasecurity/panda antivirus","rising-global/rising antivirus","sophos/sophos anti-virus","symantec/endpoint protection","trendmicro/housecall","trendmicro/trend micro antivirus"],"epss":{"score":0.99934,"percentile":0.99971,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 99.9%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80389","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80390","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80391","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80395","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80396","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80403","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80406","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80409","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52608","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74289","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80389","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80390","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80391","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80395","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80396","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80403","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80406","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/80409","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52608","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74289","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1456","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}