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CVE-2012-1437
The Microsoft Office file parser in Comodo Antivirus 7425 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an Office file with a…
Medium4.3EPSS 3.6%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
The Microsoft Office file parser in Comodo Antivirus 7425 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an Office file with a \50\4B\53\70\58 character sequence at a certain location.
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)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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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 (3)
- 20120319 Evasion attacks expoliting file-parsing vulnerabilities in antivirus products (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 52597 (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
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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