CVE-2012-2190

medium
Published 2012-08-21 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

IBM Global Security Kit (aka GSKit), as used in IBM HTTP Server in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 6.1.x before 6.1.0.45, 7.0.x before 7.0.0.25, 8.0.x before 8.0.0.4, and 8.5.x before 8.5.0.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted ClientHello message in the TLS Handshake Protocol.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.12
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.21
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.25
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.27
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.29
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.31
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.33
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.35
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.37
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.39
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.41
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server6.1.0.43
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.4
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.5
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.6
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.7
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.8
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.9
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.11
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.13
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.15
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.17
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.19
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.21
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server7.0.0.23
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.0
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.1
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.2
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.0.0.3
ibm ibmwebsphere_application_server8.5.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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

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