CVE-2012-4953

critical
Published 2012-11-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
9.3

Description

The decomposer engine in Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12.0, Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (SAVCE) 10.x, and Symantec Scan Engine (SSE) before 5.2.8 does not properly perform bounds checks of the contents of CAB archives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
symantecantivirus10.1.0
symantecantivirus10.1.4
symantecantivirus10.1.5
symantecantivirus10.1.6
symantecantivirus10.1.7
symantecantivirus10.1.8
symantecantivirus10.1.9
symantecendpoint_protection11.0
symantecendpoint_protection12.0
symantecscan_engine{"endIncluding":"5.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.