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CVE-2012-0981

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0981 describes a directory traversal vulnerability in phpShowtime 2.0, allowing remote attackers to list arbitrary directories and image files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve partial confidentiality impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, though there is no evidence of widespread active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kybernetika:phpshowtime:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Nuclei: CVE-2012-0981 · Sep 27, 2021
ExploitDB: EDB-18435 · Jan 31, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1106 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/47802
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/72824
exploit-db.com / exploits/18435
Exploit