CVE-2012-1461

EXPLOITED

Anti-virus Vba32 - Access Control

Title source: rule

Description

The Gzip file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, 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, 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, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a .tar.gz file with multiple compressed streams. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Gzip parser implementations.

Scores

EPSS 0.8389
EPSS Percentile 99.3%

Exploitation Intel

VulnCheck KEV 2023-12-07

Classification

CWE
CWE-264
Status draft

Affected Products (20)

anti-virus/vba32
authentium/command_antivirus
avg/avg_anti-virus
bitdefender/bitdefender
emsisoft/anti-malware
eset/nod32_antivirus
f-secure/f-secure_anti-virus
fortinet/fortinet_antivirus
ikarus/ikarus_virus_utilities_t3_command_line_scanner
jiangmin/jiangmin_antivirus
k7computing/antivirus
kaspersky/kaspersky_anti-virus
mcafee/gateway
mcafee/scan_engine
norman/norman_antivirus_\&_antispyware
... and 5 more

Timeline

Published Mar 21, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026