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CVE-2012-2972

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2972 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the server and agent components of CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows. This flaw stems from improper validation of RPC requests, allowing remote attackers to crash the service with a crafted request. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, though its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
N/AN/A
n/aCNA affected

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
3.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0347 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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

osvdb.org / 86415
packetstormsecurity.com / files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/86
secunia.com / advisories/51012
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79477
support.ca.com / irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/408099
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