Buffer overflow in EMC Documentum Information Rights Management

CVE-2012-2277

The IRM Server in EMC Documentum Information Rights Management 4.x before 4.7.0100 and 5.x before 5.0.1030 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (pvcontrol.exe process hang) via \n (line feed) characters in the Id fields of many "batch begin untethered" commands.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.042 (90.7th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 90.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2012-2277: held from 0.043 to 0.042.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.043 · newest: 0.042 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-2277?
CVE-2012-2277 is a vulnerability in EMC Documentum Information Rights Management, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2012-05-14.
Is CVE-2012-2277 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.