CVE-2012-4555

medium

Published 2013-01-04 · 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

The token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.3 does not properly handle interruptions of token format operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and Apache httpd web server child process crash) via unspecified vectors.

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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
redhat	certificate_system	`{"endIncluding":"8.1.1"}`
redhat	certificate_system	`7.1`
redhat	certificate_system	`7.2`
redhat	certificate_system	`7.3`
redhat	certificate_system	`8`
redhat	certificate_system	`8.0`
redhat	certificate_system	`8.1`

References

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

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