CVE-2012-2738

Vte vulnerability

CVSS

4.0

EPSS

11.2%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

The VteTerminal in gnome-terminal (vte) before 0.32.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (long loop and CPU consumption) via an escape sequence with a large repeat count value.

Affected vendor

Nalin Dahyabhai

Affected product

Vte

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2012-07-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-2738

Confirm whether Nalin Dahyabhai Vte is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-2738.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2012-2738

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2012-2738 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2012-2738?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2012-2738.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

Office Web Apps vulnerability

MEDIUM

CVE-2013-5072

Exchange Server vulnerability