Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0/10.0.2.7 Malware Detection access control

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0/10.0.2.7. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Malware Detection. This manipulation causes access control. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2012-1444. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability has been found in Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0/10.0.2.7 (Anti-Malware Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Malware Detection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The ELF file parser in eSafe 7.0.17.0, Prevx 3.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified abiversion field. 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.

The weakness was presented 03/21/2012 by Suman Jana (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-1444 since 02/29/2012. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/16/2019). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

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 SecurityFocus (BID 52604†) and OSVDB (80429†). See VDB-60507, VDB-60506, VDB-60505 and VDB-60504 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Anti-Malware Software

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• Fortinet

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• Antivirus

Version

• 4.2.254.0
• 10.0.2.7

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.fortinet.com/

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