CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3. Its EPSS score suggests a 87.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2012-1427
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
87.60%
Original NVD Description
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.