CVE-2012-6687 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

FastCGI (aka fcgi and libfcgi) 2.4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a large number of connections.

Published: 2015-02-19

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 25.5% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:fastcgi:fcgi:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-430-1	libfcgi security update
Debian DLA	DLA-431-1	libfcgi-perl security update

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.2551.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0184.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/06/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/4
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681591
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libfcgi/+bug/933417
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189958
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100696
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6687
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6687

History

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Subscriptions

Fastcgi Fcgi

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-02-19T15:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:36:02.206Z

Reserved: 2015-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-6687

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-02-19T15:59:00.047

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2012-6687

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-6687 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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