CVE-2018-7289
Malware with filenames containing pure UTF-16 characters can bypass detection.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is low and EPSS is 1.7%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
An issue was discovered in armadito-windows-driver/src/communication.c in Armadito 0.12.7.2. Malware with filenames containing pure UTF-16 characters can bypass detection. The user-mode service will fail to open the file for scanning after the conversion is done from Unicode to ANSI. This happens because characters that cannot be converted from Unicode are replaced with '?' characters.
- CVSS 3.0
- 3.3 LOWCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.72% probability · 77th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 22 February 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-172
- Affected
- teclib-edition/armadito antivirus
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.7% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://github.com/armadito/armadito-windows-driver/issues/5Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44169/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/armadito/armadito-windows-driver/issues/5Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44169/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.