CVE-2012-1985

medium
Published 2012-04-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 14.x before 14.3.x allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via a malformed URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://helixproducts.real.com/docs/security/SecurityUpdate04022012HS.pdf

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworkshelix_server14.0.0
realnetworkshelix_server14.0.1
realnetworkshelix_server14.2
realnetworkshelix_server14.2.0.212
realnetworkshelix_mobile_server14.0.0
realnetworkshelix_mobile_server14.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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