CVE-2012-6123
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.43%
Description
Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."
How to fix CVE-2012-6123
To remediate CVE-2012-6123, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/chicken—upgrade to 4.8.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2012-6123 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.8.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |