MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-0407

Data Protection Advisor vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in the DPA_Utilities library in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a negative 64-bit value in a certain size field.
Affected vendor
Emc
Affected product
Data Protection Advisor
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2012-04-20

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 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-0407

  • Confirm whether Emc Data Protection Advisor is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-0407.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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