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CVE-2012-2697

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2697 is an unspecified vulnerability in autofs, affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, that allows local users to cause a denial of service (autofs crash, delayed mounts, or prevented mount expiration) when using LDAP-based automount maps. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9 (medium severity), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: autofs-1:5.0.1-0.rc2.177.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2697Low

autofs: denial of service when using an LDAP-based automount map

Jan 7, 2013

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0132.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
osvdb.org / 89878
securityfocus.com / bid/57183