Cat Quick Heal 11.00 Malware Detection access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Cat Quick Heal 11.00 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Malware Detection. Performing a manipulation results in access control. This vulnerability was named CVE-2012-1428. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Cat Quick Heal 11.00. This affects an unknown part of the component Malware Detection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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 \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 TAR parser implementations.

The weakness was presented 03/21/2012 by Suman Jana (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2012-1428 since 02/29/2012. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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 (74243), SecurityFocus (BID 52579†) and OSVDB (80390†). See VDB-4915, VDB-60507, VDB-60506 and VDB-60505 for similar entries. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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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 🔍
01/24/2018 +1038 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2012-1428 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2012-1428
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-60483
X-Force: 74243 - Multiple Antivirus Products POSIX TAR file evasion
SecurityFocus: 52579 - Multiple AntiVirus Products TAR File Scan Evasion Vulnerability
OSVDB: 80390

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 01/24/2018 10:20
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (51), 01/24/2018 10:20 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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