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CVE-2012-5580

Date: October 27, 2014

Format string vulnerability in the print_proxies function in bin/proxy.c in libproxy 0.3.1 might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a proxy name, as demonstrated using the http_proxy environment variable or a PAC file.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5580
https://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=475
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791086
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56712
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80340
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5580
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883100
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-5580

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Code Injection

CWE-94

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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