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CVE-2012-0698

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0698 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the tcsd daemon of TrouSerS versions prior to 0.3.10. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the daemon by sending a specially crafted TCP packet with a malformed type_offset value to port 30003. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-22904) confirms the existence of exploit code, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22904 · Nov 23, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1051 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: trousers-0:0.3.13-2.el6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: trousers

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0698Low

trousers: DoS vulnerability in tcsd

Jan 13, 2012

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
packetstormsecurity.com / files/118281/TrouSerS-Denial-Of-Service.html
blogs.oracle.com / sunsecurity/entry/cve_2012_0698_denial_of
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/51295
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80226
sourceforge.net / tracker/index.php
trousers.git.sourceforge.net / git/gitweb.cgi
trousers.git.sourceforge.net / git/gitweb.cgi
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2576
exploit-db.com / exploits/22904
Exploit