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CVE-2012-4429
Vino 2.28, 2.32, 3.4.2, and earlier allows remote attackers to read clipboard activity by listening on TCP port 5900.
Medium5.0EPSS 2.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Vino 2.28, 2.32, 3.4.2, and earlier allows remote attackers to read clipboard activity by listening on TCP port 5900.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 41 days later
· 41 days 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% 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: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- RHSA-2013:0169 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- vino-clipboard-info-disclosure(78602) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120913 Re: CVE request: information leak in vino (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-1701-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 55548 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120913 CVE request: information leak in vino (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 50527 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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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