{"id":"CVE-2012-1431","aliases":["EUVD-2012-0033","GHSA-8mwm-7f2m-m3gr","PYSEC-2012-23"],"status":"published","title":"The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe...","description":"The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, 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 \\4a\\46\\49\\46 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.","severity":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.99542,"percentile":0.99946,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-264"],"published":"2012-03-21T10:00:00Z","modified":"2026-06-16T23:39:31Z","products":[{"vendor":"aladdin","product":"esafe"},{"vendor":"authentium","product":"command_antivirus"},{"vendor":"bitdefender","product":"bitdefender"},{"vendor":"comodo","product":"comodo_antivirus"},{"vendor":"f-prot","product":"f-prot_antivirus"},{"vendor":"f-secure","product":"f-secure_anti-virus"},{"vendor":"mcafee","product":"gateway"},{"vendor":"nprotect","product":"nprotect_antivirus"},{"vendor":"rising-global","product":"rising_antivirus"},{"vendor":"sophos","product":"sophos_anti-virus"}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522005","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_BUGTRAQ","x_transferred","web"]},{"url":"http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1431"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8mwm-7f2m-m3gr"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2012-1431","description":"The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, 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 \\4a\\46\\49\\46 character sequence at a certain location.  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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.","status":"published","published":"2012-03-21T10:00:00Z","modified":"2024-09-17T03:27:21Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T00:28:32.08327Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-8mwm-7f2m-m3gr","title":"The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe...","description":"The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, 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 \\4a\\46\\49\\46 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.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-17T05:31:09Z","modified":"2023-01-28T05:04:05Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:44:06.354686Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2012-1431","description":"The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, 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 \\4a\\46\\49\\46 character sequence at a certain location.  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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.","status":"withdrawn","published":"2012-03-21T10:11:00Z","modified":"2024-11-21T14:22:41.056758Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:52:51.254177Z"}]}}