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CVE-2012-4523

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4523 describes a certificate verification bypass vulnerability in uninett radsecproxy versions prior to 1.6.1. The flaw allows remote attackers to spoof clients and bypass access restrictions due to improper certificate verification when unrelated CA settings are present in the configuration. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uninett:radsecproxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uninett:radsecproxy:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uninett:radsecproxy:1.0:alpha:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uninett:radsecproxy:1.0:alpha-p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:uninett:radsecproxy:1.0:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0176 is in the 62nd 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/51251
Vendor Advisory
postlister.uninett.no / sympa/arc/radsecproxy/2012-09/msg00001.html
postlister.uninett.no / sympa/arc/radsecproxy/2012-09/msg00006.html
project.nordu.net / browse/RADSECPROXY-43
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2573
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/10/17/7
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/10/31/6
securityfocus.com / bid/56105