CVE-2012-4576

FreeBSD: Input Validation Flaw allows local users to gain elevated privileges

High7.8EPSS 0.42%

Published: 2 Dec 2019
Updated: 6 Aug 2024
Reserved: 21 Aug 2012
Assigned by: redhat

Description

Timeline

2012
21 Aug 2012
21 Aug 2012
ID reserved
By redhat
2019
2 Dec 20197 years later
2 Dec 2019· 7 years later
Published
2024
6 Aug 20245 years later
6 Aug 2024· 5 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2012-4576, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	High7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 0.42% · top 63% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

privilege escalation
CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

FreeBSD · FreeBSD
- affected 7.4
- affected 8.3
- affected 9.0
- affected and 9.1

References (6)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4576 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4576 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56654 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-11/0089.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027809 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80321 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 20:42 UTC.