CVE-2012-1426
The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, K7 AntiVirus…
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Description
The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with an initial \42\5A\68 character sequence. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different TAR parser implementations.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 89.5% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 80406 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 80409 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 52585 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2012/program.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 80407 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- multiple-av-tar-evasion-cve20121426(74241) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-1451 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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