CVE-2012-1448: Cat Quick Heal

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 88.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The CAB file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, and Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a CAB file with a modified cbCabinet field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different CAB parser implementations.

Affected products

• Cat Quick Heal: version 11.00 only
• Emsisoft Anti-Malware: version 5.1.0.1 only
• Ikarus Ikarus Virus Utilities t3 Command Line Scanner: version 1.1.97.0 only
• Trend Micro Housecall: version 9.120.0.1004 only
• Trend Micro Trend Micro Antivirus: version 9.120.0.1004 only

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