CVE-2012-4556
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
The token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd web server child process restart) via certain unspecified empty search fields in a user certificate search query.
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 | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 8.0 | |
| redhat | certificate_system | 8.1 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1550.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51482
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56843
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027846
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869579
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1550.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51482
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56843
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027846
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869579
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.