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CVE-2012-2146

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2146 describes a cryptographic vulnerability in Elixir 0.8.0, where the Blowfish algorithm in CFB mode is used without a unique initialization vector (IV), making it susceptible to information disclosure. This medium-complexity vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to potentially decrypt sensitive database information over a network. While rated with a CVSS score of 4.3, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this decade-old flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ematia:elixir:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: python-elixir

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-vfcg-5ggc-3rxxhigh

Elixir can leak information due to weak use of crypto

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2012-2146Moderate

python-elixir: weak use of crypto can leak information

Apr 18, 2012

References

elixir.ematia.de / trac/ticket/119
Vendor Advisory
groups.google.com / group/sqlelixir/browse_thread/thread/efc16227514cffa
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/04/27/8
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/04/28/2
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/04/29/1