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CVE-2012-0788

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0788 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PHP versions prior to 5.3.9, specifically within the PDORow implementation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash applications, such as the Apache HTTP Server, by crafting requests that involve a PDO driver fetch followed by a session_start function call. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to an application crash. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, and with no active Metasploit or Nuclei exploits, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-36682) exists, indicating public exploit code availability, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
8.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-36682 · Sep 24, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0895 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0788

php: crash when unserializing serialized PDORow object

Jan 11, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
bugs.php.net / bug.php
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/48668
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php