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CVE-2012-1430

Medium

The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, and Rising…

Published Mar 21, 2012 · Updated Apr 28, 2026

Key Facts

Patch immediately
  • CVE-2012-1430 is a medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3 v2) affecting Esafe (Aladdin), Bitdefender, Comodo Antivirus and 6 more products.
  • It is not listed in any known-exploited vulnerabilities catalog. No public exploit code is known.
  • EPSS estimates a 96% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
  • No fixed version is listed yet; check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
  • Brandefense priority: patch immediately, because it is very likely to be exploited soon.

CVSS v2

4.3

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

EPSS (30-day exploit likelihood)

96%

Higher than 99.8% of all scored CVEs

Exploited in the wild

No known

Not in a known-exploited catalog

Public exploit code

None known

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Description

The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a \19\04\00\10 character sequence at a certain location. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

Affected Products

9 affected entries in total
ProductAffected versionsFixed in
EsafeAladdin7.0.17.0n/a
BitdefenderBitdefender7.2n/a
Comodo AntivirusComodo7424n/a
Anti-VirusF-Secure9.0.16160.0n/a
GatewayMcafee2010.1cn/a
4 more affected products in the full CVE brief

Timeline

  1. Publicly disclosed

    Mar 21, 2012

  2. Last updated

    Apr 28, 2026

Weakness Type

  • CWE-264

References

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