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CVE-2012-1438

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1438 describes a bypass vulnerability in the Microsoft Office file parsers of Comodo Antivirus 7425 and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, allowing remote attackers to evade malware detection by embedding a specific "ustar" character sequence within an Office file. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact without requiring authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7425CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:comodo:comodo_antivirus:7425:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.61.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sophos:sophos_anti-virus:4.61.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
13.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1396 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

ieee-security.org / TC/SP2012/program.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/522005