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CVE-2012-5456

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5456 describes a critical vulnerability in Zoner AntiVirus Free for Android, where the application fails to validate the hostname against the X.509 certificate's Common Name during SSL communication. This flaw allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof legitimate SSL servers, particularly those used for updating virus signatures, using any valid certificate. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), the vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and could lead to partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zoner:zoner_antivirus_free:-:-:*:*:*:android:*:*
1.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zoner:zoner_antivirus_free:1.7.0:-:*:*:*:android:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 17th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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/79591
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www2.dcsec.uni-hannover.de / files/android/p50-fahl.pdf
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/56292
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry