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CVE-2012-0959
Remote Login Service (RLS) 1.0.0 does not properly clear account information when switching users, which might allow physically proximate…
Low2.1EPSS 0.40%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- canonical
Description
Remote Login Service (RLS) 1.0.0 does not properly clear account information when switching users, which might allow physically proximate users to obtain login credentials.
Timeline
ID reserved
By canonical
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/remote-login-service/%2Bbug/1070896 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1624-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- remote-login-info-disc(80278) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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