What is CVE-2018-7289?

CVE-2018-7289 is a low-severity vulnerability in Teclib-Edition Armadito Antivirus, classified under CWE-172. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2018-02-21.

How severe is CVE-2018-7289?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Teclib-Edition Armadito Antivirus

CVE-2018-7289

An issue was discovered in armadito-windows-driver/src/communication.c in Armadito 0.12.7.2. Malware with filenames containing pure UTF-16 characters can bypass detection. The user-mode service will fail to open the file for scanning after the conversion is done from Unicode to ANSI. This happens because characters that cannot be converted from Unicode are replaced with '?' characters.

EPSS: 0.017 (75.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Teclib-edition Armadito_antivirus — versions 0.12.7.2
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-172

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7289?: CVE-2018-7289 is a low-severity vulnerability in Teclib-Edition Armadito Antivirus, classified under CWE-172. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2018-02-21.
How severe is CVE-2018-7289?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.