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CVE-2012-4866

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4866 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in Xtreme RAT 3.5, allowing local users to execute arbitrary code. This flaw enables DLL hijacking attacks by tricking the application into loading a malicious dwmapi.dll from the current working directory. With a CVSS score of 6.9, it carries a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring local access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xtremerat:xtremerat:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-23
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

packetstormsecurity.org / files/110949/Xtreme-RAT-DLL-Hijack.html
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/74151
securityfocus.com / bid/52542
Exploit