F-secureCVEs & Vulnerabilities

A vulnerability affecting F-Secure Antivirus engine was discovered whereby scanning WIM archive file can lead to denial-of-service (infinite loop and freezes AV engine scanner). The vulnerability can be exploit remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service of the Anti-Virus engine.

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in all versions of F-Secure Atlant whereby the SAVAPI component used in certain F-Secure products can crash while scanning fuzzed files. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service (DoS) of the Anti-Virus engine.

A address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for iOS. Showing the legitimate URL in the address bar while loading the content from other domain. This makes the user believe that the content is served by a legit domain. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform address bar spoofing attack.

An address bar spoofing vulnerability was discovered in Safe Browser for Android. When user clicks on a specially crafted a malicious URL, it appears like a legitimate one on the address bar, while the content comes from other domain and presented in a window, covering the original content. A remote attacker can leverage this to perform address bar spoofing attack.

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Atlant whereby the SAVAPI component used in certain F-Secure products can crash while scanning fuzzed files. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service (DoS) of the Anti-Virus engine.

Showing the legitimate URL in the address bar while loading the content from other domain. This makes the user believe that the content is served by a legit domain. Exploiting the vulnerability requires the user to click on a specially crafted, seemingly legitimate URL containing an embedded malicious redirect while using F-Secure Safe Browser for iOS.

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Linux Security whereby the FSAVD component used in certain F-Secure products can crash while scanning larger packages/fuzzed files. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker. A successful attack will result in Denial-of-Service (DoS) of the Anti-Virus engine.

An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. Due to incorrect client version verification, an attacker can connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine.

An issue was discovered in F-Secure SAFE 17.7 on macOS. The XPC services use the PID to identify the connecting client, which allows an attacker to perform a PID reuse attack and connect to a privileged XPC service, and execute privileged commands on the system. NOTE: the attacker needs to execute code on an already compromised machine.

The F-Secure AV parsing engine before 2020-02-05 allows virus-detection bypass via crafted Compression Method data in a GZIP archive. This affects versions before 17.0.605.474 (on Linux) of Cloud Protection For Salesforce, Email and Server Security, and Internet GateKeeper.

In the F-Secure installer in F-Secure SAFE for Windows before 17.6, F-Secure Internet Security before 17.6, F-Secure Anti-Virus before 17.6, F-Secure Client Security Standard and Premium before 14.10, F-Secure PSB Workstation Security before 12.01, and F-Secure Computer Protection Standard and Premium before 19.3, a local user can escalate their privileges through a DLL hijacking attack against the installer. The installer writes the file rm.exe to C:\Windows\Temp and then executes it. The rm.exe process then attempts to load several DLLs from its current directory. Non-admin users are able to write to this folder, so an attacker can create a malicious C:\Windows\Temp\OLEACC.dll file. When an admin runs the installer, rm.exe will execute the attacker's DLL in an elevated security context.

An issue was discovered in F-Secure XFENCE and Little Flocker. A maliciously crafted Universal/fat binary can evade third-party code signing checks. By not completing full inspection of the Universal/fat binary, the user of the third-party tool will believe that the code is signed by Apple, but the malicious unsigned code will execute.

F-Secure Radar (on-premises) before 2018-02-15 has an Unvalidated Redirect via the ReturnUrl parameter that triggers upon a user login.

F-Secure Radar (on-premises) before 2018-02-15 has XSS via vectors involving the Tags parameter in the JSON request body in an outbound request for the /api/latest/vulnerabilityscans/tags/batch resource, aka a "suggested metadata tags for assets" issue.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in F-Secure Online Scanner allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse DLL that is located in the same folder as F-SecureOnlineScanner.exe.

F-Secure Software Updater 2.20, as distributed in several F-Secure products, downloads installation packages over plain http and does not perform file integrity validation after download. Man-in-the-middle attackers can replace the file with their own executable which will be executed under the SYSTEM account. Note that when Software Updater is configured to install updates automatically, it checks if the downloaded file is digitally signed by default, but does not check the author of the signature. When running in manual mode (default), no signature check is performed.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in F-Secure Messaging Secure Gateway 7.5.0 before Patch 1862 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the new parameter in the SysUser module to admin.

SQL injection vulnerability in an unspecified DLL in the FSDBCom ActiveX control in F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange Server before HF02, Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 9.00 before HF09, Anti-Virus for Citrix Servers 9.00 before HF09, and F-Secure Email and Server Security and F-Secure Server Security 9.20 before HF01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unknown vectors, related to GetCommand.

F-Secure Anti-Virus, Safe Anywhere, and PSB Workstation Security before 11500 for Mac OS X allows local users to disable the Mac OS X firewall via unspecified vectors.

Race condition in F-Secure Internet Security 2010 10.00 build 246 on Windows XP allows local users to bypass kernel-mode hook handlers, and execute dangerous code that would otherwise be blocked by a handler but not blocked by signature-based malware detection, via certain user-space memory changes during hook-handler execution, aka an argument-switch attack or a KHOBE attack. NOTE: this issue is disputed by some third parties because it is a flaw in a protection mechanism for situations where a crafted program has already begun to execute

F-Secure Anti-Virus does not properly interact with the processing of hcp:// URLs by the Microsoft Help and Support Center, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malware that is correctly detected by this product, but with a detection approach that occurs too late to stop the code execution. NOTE: the researcher indicates that a vendor response was received, stating that "the inability to catch these files are caused by lacking functionality rather than programming errors."

The ELF file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified endianness field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

The Gzip file parser in AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a .tar.gz file with multiple compressed streams. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different Gzip parser implementations.

The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, G Data AntiVirus 21, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, VBA32 3.12.14.2, and VirusBuster 13.6.151.0 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a TAR archive entry with a length field corresponding to that entire entry, plus part of the header of the next entry. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different TAR parser implementations.

The RAR file parser in ClamAV 0.96.4, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, G Data AntiVirus 21, AVEngine 20101.3.0.103 in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, PC Tools AntiVirus 7.0.3.5, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, VirusBuster 13.6.151.0, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, K7 AntiVirus 9.77.3565, Trend Micro HouseCall 9.120.0.1004, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, Jiangmin Antivirus 13.0.900, Antimalware Engine 1.1.6402.0 in Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, NOD32 Antivirus 5795, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Norman Antivirus 6.06.12, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, Trend Micro AntiVirus 9.120.0.1004, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Bitdefender 7.2, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, and VBA32 3.12.14.2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a RAR file with an initial MZ character sequence. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different RAR parser implementations.

The ELF file parser in Quick Heal (aka Cat QuickHeal) 11.00, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, eSafe 7.0.17.0, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.0.125, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03, Fortinet Antivirus 4.2.254.0, and Panda Antivirus 10.0.2.7 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a modified class field. NOTE: this may later be SPLIT into multiple CVEs if additional information is published showing that the error occurred independently in different ELF parser implementations.

The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Prot Antivirus 4.6.2.117, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a \4a\46\49\46 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 ELF parser implementations.

The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Comodo Antivirus 7424, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01, Sophos Anti-Virus 4.61.0, and Rising Antivirus 22.83.00.03 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF file with a \19\04\00\10 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 ELF parser implementations.

The ELF file parser in Bitdefender 7.2, Comodo Antivirus 7424, Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.1.0.1, eSafe 7.0.17.0, F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.0.16160.0, Ikarus Virus Utilities T3 Command Line Scanner 1.1.97.0, McAfee Anti-Virus Scanning Engine 5.400.0.1158, McAfee Gateway (formerly Webwasher) 2010.1C, and nProtect Anti-Virus 2011-01-17.01 allows remote attackers to bypass malware detection via an ELF 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 ELF parser implementations.

The WebReporting module in F-Secure Policy Manager 7.x, 8.00 before hotfix 2, 8.1x before hotfix 3 on Windows and hotfix 2 on Linux, and 9.00 before hotfix 4 on Windows and hotfix 2 on Linux, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a request to an invalid report, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated with requests to (1) report/infection-table.html or (2) report/productsummary-table.html.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WebReporting module in F-Secure Policy Manager 7.x, 8.00 before hotfix 2, 8.1x before hotfix 3 on Windows and hotfix 2 on Linux, and 9.00 before hotfix 4 on Windows and hotfix 2 on Linux, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper for Linux 3.x before 3.03 does not require authentication for reading access logs, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via a TCP session on the admin UI port.

F-Secure Internet Security 2010 and earlier; Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 9 and earlier, and for MIMEsweeper 5.61 and earlier; Internet Gatekeeper for Windows 6.61 and earlier, and for Linux 4.02 and earlier; Anti-Virus 2010 and earlier; Home Server Security 2009; Protection Service for Consumers 9 and earlier, for Business - Workstation security 9 and earlier, for Business - Server Security 8 and earlier, and for E-mail and Server security 9 and earlier; Mac Protection build 8060 and earlier; Client Security 9 and earlier; and various Anti-Virus products for Windows, Linux, and Citrix; does not properly detect malware in crafted (1) 7Z, (2) GZIP, (3) CAB, or (4) RAR archives, which makes it easier for remote attackers to avoid detection.

Multiple F-Secure anti-virus products, including Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange 7.10 and earlier; Internet Gatekeeper for Windows 6.61 and earlier, Windows 6.61 and earlier, and Linux 2.16 and earlier; Internet Security 2009 and earlier, Anti-Virus 2009 and earlier, Client Security 8.0 and earlier, and others; allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a crafted (1) ZIP and (2) RAR archive.

Integer overflow in multiple F-Secure anti-virus products, including Internet Security 2006 through 2008, Anti-Virus 2006 through 2008, and others, when configured to scan inside compressed archives, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPM compressed archive file, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Unspecified vulnerability in multiple F-Secure anti-virus products, including Internet Security 2006 through 2008, Anti-Virus 2006 through 2008, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (hang or crash) via a malformed archive that triggers an unhandled exception, as demonstrated by the PROTOS GENOME test suite for Archive Formats.

Multiple F-Secure anti-virus products, including Internet Security 2006 through 2008, Anti-Virus 2006 through 2008, F-Secure Protection Service, and others, allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a crafted RAR archive. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2008-0792.

Multiple F-Secure anti-virus products, including Internet Security 2006 through 2008, Anti-Virus 2006 through 2008, F-Secure Protection Service, and others, allow remote attackers to bypass malware detection via a crafted CAB archive.

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers 7.0 64-bit edition allows local users to bypass virus scanning by using the system32 directory to store a crafted (1) archive or (2) packed executable. NOTE: in many environments, this does not cross privilege boundaries because any process able to write to system32 could also shut off F-Secure Anti-Virus.

Multiple F-Secure anti-virus products for Microsoft Windows and Linux before 20070619 allow remote attackers to bypass scanning via a crafted header in a (1) LHA or (2) RAR archive.

Unspecified vulnerability in the Real-time Scanning component in multiple F-Secure products, including Internet Security 2005, 2006 and 2007; Anti-Virus 2005, 2006 and 2007; and Solutions based on F-Secure Protection Service for Consumers 6.40 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted I/O request packet (IRP), related to IOCTL (Input/Output Control) and "access validation of the address space."

Buffer overflow in the LHA decompression component in F-Secure anti-virus products for Microsoft Windows and Linux before 20070529 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted LHA archive, related to an integer wrap, a similar issue to CVE-2006-4335.

Multiple F-Secure anti-virus products for Microsoft Windows and Linux before 20070522 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file scanning infinite loop) via certain crafted (1) ARJ archives or (2) FSG packed files.

The fsmsh.dll host module in F-Secure Policy Manager Server 7.00 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via NTFS reserved words in filenames in URLs.

Format string vulnerability in F-Secure Anti-Virus Client Security 6.02 allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain privileges via format string specifiers in the Management Server name field on the Communication settings page.

F-Secure Anti-Virus for Linux Gateways 4.65 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (possibly fatal scan error), and possibly bypass virus detection, by inserting invalid characters into base64 encoded content in a multipart/mixed MIME file, as demonstrated with the EICAR test file.

F-Secure Anti-Virus 2003 through 2006 and other versions, Internet Security 2003 through 2006, and Service Platform for Service Providers 6.x and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass anti-virus scanning via a crafted filename.

F-Secure Anti-Virus 2003 through 2006 and other versions, Internet Security 2003 through 2006, and Service Platform for Service Providers 6.x and earlier does not scan files contained on removable media when "Scan network drives" is disabled, which allows remote attackers to bypass anti-virus controls.