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CVE-2012-3478

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3478 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in rssh versions 2.3.3 and earlier, affecting the pizzashack rssh product. Attackers can bypass restricted shell access by manipulating environment variables from the command line. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pizzashack:rssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pizzashack:rssh:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pizzashack:rssh:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pizzashack:rssh:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pizzashack:rssh:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
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
0.39%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
31.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0039 is in the 50th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0036.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2012-11/0101.html
secunia.com / advisories/50272
Vendor Advisory
sourceforge.net / mailarchive/message.php
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2530
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/10/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/11/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/28/3
securityfocus.com / bid/53430