VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6086

medium
Published 2014-01-29 · 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
4.3

Description

libs/zbxmedia/eztexting.c in Zabbix 1.8.x before 1.8.18rc1, 2.0.x before 2.0.8rc1, and 2.1.x before 2.1.2 does not properly set the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST option for libcurl, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

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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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.0.7+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.0.7+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.0.7+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed1:2.0.7+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.0.7+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
zabbixzabbix1.8.1
zabbixzabbix1.8.10
zabbixzabbix1.8.15
zabbixzabbix1.8.16
zabbixzabbix2.0.0
zabbixzabbix2.0.1
zabbixzabbix2.0.2
zabbixzabbix2.0.3
zabbixzabbix2.0.4
zabbixzabbix2.0.5
zabbixzabbix2.0.6
zabbixzabbix2.1.0
zabbixzabbix2.1.1

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.