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CVE-2012-10022

37
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-10022 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Kloxo versions 6.1.12 and earlier. Two setuid root binaries, lxsuexec and lxrestart, allow users with Apache-level access (uid 48) to execute arbitrary commands as root without authentication. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.5 (HIGH), indicating a severe risk with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for this vulnerability, suggesting readily available exploit code. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
LxCenterKloxo
>= 0, <= 6.1.12CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.5HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Kloxo Local Privilege Escalation · Sep 18, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 17,061 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

github.com / KloxoNGCommunity/kloxo
kloxo.org
raw.githubusercontent.com / rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/linux/local/kloxo_lxsuexec.rb
web.archive.org / web/20121122063935/http://roothackers.net/showthread.php
exploit-db.com / exploits/25406
vulncheck.com / advisories/kloxo-local-priv-esc