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CVE-2012-1586

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1586 is a local information disclosure vulnerability affecting mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6, including Debian cifs-utils. A local attacker can determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories by observing error messages generated when providing a file path as the second argument. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required, with only a partial impact on confidentiality. While there is an ExploitDB entry (EDB-18783) demonstrating arbitrary root file identification, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debian:cifs-utils:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-18783 · Apr 25, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0073 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: cifs-utils-0:4.8.1-10.el6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: samba3x

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1586Low

cifs-utils: mount.cifs file existence disclosure vulnerability

Mar 21, 2012

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00024.html
bugzilla.samba.org / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/6