What is CVE-2012-5959?

CVE-2012-5959 is a vulnerability in Portable Sdk For Upnp Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2013-01-31.

Is CVE-2012-5959 known to be exploited?

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

Buffer overflow in Portable Sdk For Upnp Project

CVE-2012-5959

Stack-based buffer overflow in the unique_service_name function in ssdp/ssdp_server.c in the SSDP parser in the portable SDK for UPnP Devices (aka libupnp, formerly the Intel SDK for UPnP devices) before 1.6.18 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long UDN (aka uuid) field within a string that contains a :: (colon colon) in a UDP packet.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2013-01-31 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.758 (99.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-18.

High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.758 · newest: 0.758 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Portable Sdk For Upnp Project — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-5959?: CVE-2012-5959 is a vulnerability in Portable Sdk For Upnp Project, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2013-01-31.
Is CVE-2012-5959 known to be exploited?: 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.