What is CVE-2012-0814?

CVE-2012-0814 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenBSD OpenSSH, classified under CWE-255. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2012-01-27.

How severe is CVE-2012-0814?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2012-0814 known to be exploited?

32 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Information disclosure in OpenBSD OpenSSH

CVE-2012-0814

The auth_parse_options function in auth-options.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 5.7 provides debug messages containing authorized_keys command options, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading these messages, as demonstrated by the shared user account required by Gitolite. NOTE: this can cross privilege boundaries because a user account may intentionally have no shell or filesystem access, and therefore may have no supported way to read an authorized_keys file in its own home directory.

Published 2012-01-27 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.036 (88.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 88.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.036 · change: -0.001

Affected products

OpenBSD OpenSSH — versions 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/51702 (vdb-entry)
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/27/4 (mailing-list)
kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/26/15 (mailing-list)
osvdb.org/78706 (vdb-entry)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72756 (vdb-entry)
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/26/16 (mailing-list)
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/27/1 (mailing-list)
www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/auth-options.c

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0814?: CVE-2012-0814 is a medium-severity vulnerability in OpenBSD OpenSSH, classified under CWE-255. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2012-01-27.
How severe is CVE-2012-0814?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2012-0814 known to be exploited?: 32 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.