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CVE-2012-4571
Python Keyring 0.9.1 does not securely initialize the cipher when encrypting passwords for CryptedFileKeyring files, which makes it easier…
- 2.1LowCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Python Keyring 0.9.1 does not securely initialize the cipher when encrypting passwords for CryptedFileKeyring files, which makes it easier for local users to obtain passwords via a brute-force attack.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 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)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (9 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.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIkeyringGHSA-p3h7-3c45-qj4v (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/keyring (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-keyring/+bug/1004845 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121031 Re: CVE Request: Python keyring (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-1634-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-0012 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-p3h7-3c45-qj4v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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