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CVE-2012-3845

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3845 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in LAN Messenger version 1.2.28 and earlier. This flaw allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service (application crash) by sending a specially crafted, excessively long string within an initiation request. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with a low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and impacting availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a public exploit (EDB-18816) exists, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lan_messenger:lan_messenger1.2.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-18816 · May 1, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0331 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2012-05/0005.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/75319
exploit-db.com / exploits/18816
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/53333
Exploit