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CVE-2012-0006

34
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0006 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the DNS server in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 (including R2 and R2 SP1). This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to trigger a daemon restart by sending a specially crafted DNS query, due to improper handling of memory objects during record lookup. While rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, its FAUCET Risk Score is exceptionally high at 97/100, suggesting a significant potential impact despite the CVSS. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:*:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:sp2:x64:*:*:*:*:*
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*:sp2:x86:*:*:*:*:*
r2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2:*:x64:*:*:*:*:*

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
31.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3108 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

osvdb.org / 80005
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-017
secunia.com / advisories/48394
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15098
securityfocus.com / bid/52374
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA12-073A.html
US Government Resource