CVE-2012-1438: Comodo Antivirus

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Microsoft Office file parser in Comodo Antivirus 7425 and Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an Office file with a ustar 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 Office parser implementations.

Affected products

  • Comodo Comodo Antivirus: version 7425 only
  • Sophos Sophos Anti-Virus: version 4.61.0 only

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