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CVE-2012-6084

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6084 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting ircd-ratbox before version 3.0.8 and Charybdis before version 3.4.2. A remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a malformed request during server handshake, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ircd-ratbox:ircd-ratbox:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ircd-ratbox:ircd-ratbox:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ircd-ratbox:ircd-ratbox:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ircd-ratbox:ircd-ratbox:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ircd-ratbox:ircd-ratbox:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.05%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0305 is in the 81st 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/01/01/4
Patch
rabbit.dereferenced.org / ~nenolod/ASA-2012-12-31.txt
github.com / atheme/charybdis/commit/ac0707aa61d9c20e9b09062294701567c9f41595.patch
Patch
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2612
ratbox.org / download/ircd-ratbox-3.0.8.tar.bz2
Patch
stack.nl / ~jilles/irc/charybdis-3.4.2.tbz2
Patch