What is CVE-2012-6123?

CVE-2012-6123 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Call-Cc Chicken, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-10-31.

How severe is CVE-2012-6123?

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

Improper input validation in Call-Cc Chicken

CVE-2012-6123

Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.013 (66.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

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

Affected products

Call-cc Chicken
Chicken — versions before 4.8.0
Debian Debian_linux — versions 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

secalert@redhat.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
secalert@redhat.com (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-6123?: CVE-2012-6123 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Call-Cc Chicken, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2019-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2012-6123?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.