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CVE-2012-2696

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2696 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M) versions prior to 3.1. Authenticated remote attackers can exploit this flaw by sending crafted SOAP or GWT requests to query arbitrary information due to improper privilege checks in the backend. With a CVSS score of 2.7, this vulnerability is considered low severity, requiring network access and authentication for exploitation, and primarily impacting confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_virtualization_manager:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.7LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
5.1
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0078 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 85 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV Manager version 3.0Fixed in: org.ovirt.engine-root-0:3.1.0-32
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2Fixed in: ovirt-engine-backend

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2696Low

rhev: backend allows unprivileged queries

Dec 4, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1506.html
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80545
securityfocus.com / bid/56825
securitytracker.com / id