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CVE-2012-0124

82
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0124 is an unspecified vulnerability in HP Data Protector Express versions 5.0.00 (before build 59287) and 6.0.00 (before build 11974). This critical vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service with low attack complexity. Its CVSS score of 10.0 reflects a complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module for a buffer overflow exploit exists, indicating public exploit code availability, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hp:data_protector_express:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hp:data_protector_express:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
62.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: HP Data Protector Create New Folder Buffer Overflow · Mar 12, 2012
ExploitDB: EDB-19484 · Jul 1, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6230 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityfocus.com / archive/1/521944