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CVE-2012-0880

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0880 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Xerces-C++ that allows remote attackers to consume excessive CPU resources. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.5) can be triggered by sending a specially crafted XML message to an XML service, leading to hash table collisions. While the attack complexity is low and requires no user interaction, the primary impact is a denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:xerces-c\+\+:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0440 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 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

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: xerces-c
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: xerces-c
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: xerces-c

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0880Moderate

xml: xerces-c hash table collisions CPU usage DoS (oCERT-2011-003)

Jul 8, 2014

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q3/96
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory