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CVE-2012-2145

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2145 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Apache Qpid versions 0.17 and earlier. Remote attackers can exploit this by initiating numerous incomplete connections, leading to file descriptor exhaustion and service disruption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0424 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: mrg-release-0:2.2.0-1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: python-qpid-0:0.14-11.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: qpid-cpp-mrg-0:0.14-22.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: qpid-java-0:0.18-2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: qpid-jca-0:0.18-2.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: qpid-qmf-0:0.14-14.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: qpid-tools-0:0.14-6.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: python-qpid-0:0.14-11.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qpid-cpp-0:0.14-22.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qpid-qmf-0:0.14-14.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qpid-tools-0:0.14-6.el6_3
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: qpid-cpp

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2145Moderate

qpid-cpp: not closing incomplete connections exhausts file descriptors, leading to DoS

Apr 24, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1269.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1277.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/50573
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50698
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50699
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/78730
issues.apache.org / jira/browse/QPID-2616
issues.apache.org / jira/browse/QPID-4021
securityfocus.com / bid/55608