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CVE-2012-2268

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2268 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server versions 14.x prior to 14.3.x. Remote attackers can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted Open-PDU request to the SNMP Master Agent's master.exe, leading to an unhandled exception and daemon crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication required, resulting in a complete loss of availability. There is no known public exploit code, Metasploit modules, or evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
14.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_server:14.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_server:14.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_server:14.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.2.0.212CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_server:14.2.0.212:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:realnetworks:helix_mobile_server:14.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0157 is in the 56th 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

helixproducts.real.com / docs/security/SecurityUpdate04022012HS.pdf
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / secunia_research/2012-9
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/52929
securitytracker.com / id