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CVE-2012-1107

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1107 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in TagLib 1.7 and earlier, specifically within the analyzeCurrent function in ape/apeproperties.cpp. An attacker can exploit this by crafting an APE file with a malicious sampleRate, leading to a divide-by-zero error and application crash. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium complexity, and a potential impact of partial availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:scott_wheeler:taglib:1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0183 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1107Moderate

taglib: ape file with sampleRate 0 causes crash

Mar 4, 2012

References

mail.kde.org / pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002186.html
mail.kde.org / pipermail/taglib-devel/2012-March/002187.html
osvdb.org / 79814
secunia.com / advisories/48211
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/48792
secunia.com / advisories/49688
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/73666
github.com / taglib/taglib/commit/77d61c6eca4d08b9b025738acf6b926cc750db23
ExploitPatch
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201206-16.xml
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/19
securityfocus.com / bid/52284