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CVE-2012-2328

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2328 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Standards-Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (SBLIM) Common Information Model (CIM) Client versions prior to 2.1.12, including specific openSUSE packages. The flaw, residing in NodeFactory.java, allows attackers to trigger predictable hash collisions via crafted XML files, leading to high CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.1.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:standards_based_linux_instrumentation_project:standards-based_linux_common_information_model_client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 64th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sblim-cim-client2-0:2.1.3-2.el6
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: sblim

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2328Low

sblim: hash table collisions CPU usage DoS

Feb 21, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00038.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0987.html
sblim.cvs.sourceforge.net / viewvc/sblim/jsr48-client/src/org/sblim/cimclient/internal/cimxml/sax/NodeFactory.java
sourceforge.net / p/sblim/bugs/2381