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CVE-2012-10028

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-10028 is a critical vulnerability in Netwin SurgeFTP versions 23c8 and prior, allowing authenticated users to execute arbitrary system commands through crafted POST requests to the surgeftpmgr.cgi web interface. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.6) enables full remote code execution on the underlying system, requiring high privileges but no user interaction. While not on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists, and the vulnerability has significant community discussion, indicating potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0, <= 23c8CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgeftp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.6HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/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
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
HIGH
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
0.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Netwin SurgeFTP Remote Command Execution · Dec 6, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0098 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 5,528 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

netwinsite.com / surgeftp
raw.githubusercontent.com / rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/netwin_surgeftp_exec.rb
exploit-db.com / exploits/23522
exploit-db.com / exploits/23601
vulncheck.com / advisories/netwin-surgeftp-auth-rce