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CVE-2012-1446Antivirus Engines — Executable Parsing Differential

Several antivirus engines parse a crafted Unix executable differently from the system that will run it, which lets an attacker ship a binary the scanner reads as harmless.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Update the scanning engines, and treat scanner verdicts on malformed binaries as unreliable.

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THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
—/ 10
No score recorded
EPSS probability
100%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Not listed
CVE published
2012-03-21
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
medium
Kill chain
defense evasion
MITRE ATT&CK
T1027
Severity
medium

Attacker needsA binary the target will scan and then execute

Behind the card

1 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, references, published_atnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-08-07scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-08-07claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

First printing. This card has not been reprinted since publication.

crds:cve-2012-1446 · CRDS 0.1 · Issued 2026-08-07