CVE-2012-1431: Aladdin Esafe

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF 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 ELF parser implementations.

Affected products

• Aladdin Esafe: version 7.0.17.0 only
• Authentium Command Antivirus: version 5.2.11.5 only
• Bitdefender Bitdefender: version 7.2 only
• Comodo Comodo Antivirus: version 7424 only
• F-Prot F-Prot Antivirus: version 4.6.2.117 only
• F-Secure F-Secure Anti-Virus: version 9.0.16160.0 only
• McAfee Gateway: version 2010.1c only
• Nprotect Nprotect Antivirus: version 2011-01-17.01 only
• Rising-Global Rising Antivirus: version 22.83.00.03 only
• Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus: version 4.61.0 only

Published 2012-03-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.