MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2011-2012

Forefront Unified Access Gateway vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
16.6%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 Gold, Update 1, Update 2, and SP1 does not properly validate session cookies, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IIS outage) via unspecified network traffic, aka "Null Session Cookie Crash."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Forefront Unified Access Gateway
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2011-10-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Confirm whether Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-2012.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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