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CVE-2012-5301

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5301 describes a weakness in Cerberus FTP Server versions prior to 5.0.4.0, where its default configuration allowed the use of the outdated DES cipher for SSH sessions. This vulnerability enables remote attackers to potentially extract sensitive information through network sniffing and brute-force attacks against the weakly encrypted data. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this issue is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, primarily impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is exploit code publicly available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.0.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cerberusftp:ftp_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cerberusftp:ftp_server:1.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cerberusftp:ftp_server:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cerberusftp:ftp_server:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cerberusftp:ftp_server:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
64.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0117 is in the 42nd 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79503
cerberusftp.com / products/releasenotes.html