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CVE-2012-10041

47
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-10041 describes two unauthenticated command execution vulnerabilities in WAN Emulator v2.3. The result.php script allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as the www-data user due to unsanitized input, and a SUID-root binary named dosu is vulnerable to command injection. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.3, allows an attacker to achieve full remote code execution and escalate privileges to root without authentication. Exploit code is publicly available via a Metasploit module, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating a high potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
WAN EmulatorWAN Emulator
2.3CNA affecteddefault unknown

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.3CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/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
NONE
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
2.85%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: WAN Emulator v2.3 Command Execution · Aug 12, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0285 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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

raw.githubusercontent.com / rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/wanem_exec.rb
sourceforge.net / projects/wanem
exploit-db.com / exploits/21190
vulncheck.com / advisories/wan-emulator-command-execution