Cat Quick Heal 11.00 Malware Detection access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cat Quick Heal 11.00. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Malware Detection. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-1427. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cat Quick Heal 11.00. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Malware Detection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The TAR file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a POSIX TAR file with a \57\69\6E\5A\69\70 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 TAR parser implementations.

The weakness was disclosed 03/21/2012 by Suman Jana (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-1427 since 02/29/2012. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (74242), SecurityFocus (BID 52587†) and OSVDB (80390†). The entries VDB-4915, VDB-60507, VDB-60506 and VDB-60505 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Unproven

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Timelineinfo

02/29/2012 🔍
03/20/2012 +20 days 🔍
03/21/2012 +1 days 🔍
03/21/2012 +0 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +1097 days 🔍
01/18/2018 +1032 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Suman Jana
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2012-1427 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-1427
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-60482
X-Force: 74242 - Multiple Antivirus Products POSIX TAR file evasion
SecurityFocus: 52587 - Multiple AntiVirus Products CVE-2012-1427 TAR File Scan Evasion Vulnerability
OSVDB: 80390

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 01/18/2018 07:49
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (50), 01/18/2018 07:49 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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