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CVE-2012-2192

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2192 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in IBM AIX and VIOS, where a local attacker can crash the system by exploiting a flaw in the socketpair function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating low attack complexity and requiring local access, with the primary impact being system unavailability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:ibm:aix:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:vios:2.2.1.4:fp-25_sp-02:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 3,049 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

aix.software.ibm.com / aix/efixes/security/socket_advisory.asc
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/76032
ibm.com / support/docview.wss
ibm.com / support/docview.wss
ibm.com / support/docview.wss
ibm.com / support/docview.wss
ibm.com / support/docview.wss
securityfocus.com / bid/53567
securitytracker.com / id