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CVE-2012-2996

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2996 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security Suite 7.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to hijack administrator authentication to create new administrative accounts. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and can lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trendmicro:interscan_messaging_security_suite:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21319 · Sep 14, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

secunia.com / advisories/50620
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/471364
ExploitUS Government Resource
securitytracker.com / id