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CVE-2012-1429

66
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1429 describes a bypass vulnerability in the ELF file parsers of several antivirus products, including Bitdefender, Comodo, and McAfee. Remote attackers can exploit this by crafting an ELF file containing a specific "ustar" character sequence, allowing malware to evade detection. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0.17.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aladdin:esafe:7.0.17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7424CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:comodo:comodo_antivirus:7424:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:emsisoft:anti-malware:5.1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.16160.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-secure:f-secure_anti-virus:9.0.16160.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.97.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ikarus:ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner:1.1.97.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
92.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9263 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/74244
ieee-security.org / TC/SP2012/program.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/522005