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CVE-2012-3534

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3534 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNU Gatekeeper versions prior to 3.1. The flaw allows remote attackers to exhaust system resources by establishing an excessive number of connections to the status port, leading to connection and thread consumption. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnugk:gnu_gatekeeper:*:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnugk:gnu_gatekeeper:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnugk:gnu_gatekeeper:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0387 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00070.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50343
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/77975
gnugk.org / gnugk-3.1.html
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/25/3
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/25/4
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/27/1
Third Party Advisory
osvdb.org / 84862
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/55198
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry