CVE-2018-7289

LOW

Armadito 0.12.7.2 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2018-7289. PoCs published by Souhail Hammou.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a writeup detailing a vulnerability in Armadito Antivirus where filenames containing pure UTF-16 characters can bypass malware detection due to a Unicode to ANSI conversion failure. The issue is in the communication.c file of the armadito-windows-driver.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
by Souhail Hammou · textlocalwindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44169

This is a writeup detailing a vulnerability in Armadito Antivirus where filenames containing pure UTF-16 characters can bypass malware detection due to a Unicode to ANSI conversion failure. The issue is in the communication.c file of the armadito-windows-driver.

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Armadito Antivirus 0.12.7.2 and previous versions
No auth needed
Prerequisites: A file with a UTF-16 encoded filename
MITRE ATT&CK
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/armadito/armadito-windows-driver/issues/5
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44169/

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3
EPSS 0.0182
EPSS Percentile 76.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-172
Status published
Products (1)
teclib-edition/armadito_antivirus 0.12.7.2
Published Feb 21, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026