MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-0781

Php vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
10.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The tidy_diagnose function in PHP 5.3.8 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted input to an application that attempts to perform Tidy::diagnose operations on invalid objects, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4153.
Affected vendor
Php
Affected product
Php
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2012-01-18

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 10.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-0781.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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