CVE-2012-0429

medium

Published 2012-12-25 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

dhost in NetIQ eDirectory 8.8.6.x before 8.8.6.7 and 8.8.7.x before 8.8.7.2 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted characters in an HTTP request.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.0`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.1`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.2`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.3`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.4`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.5`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.6.6`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.7.0`
microfocus	edirectory	`8.8.7.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.