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CVE-2012-3416

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3416 describes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Condor versions prior to 7.8.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute administrative or write actions by spoofing a reverse DNS hostname, effectively bypassing host-based authentication mechanisms. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability presents a severe risk, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:condor_project:condor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:condor_project:condor:6.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:condor_project:condor:6.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:condor_project:condor:6.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:condor_project:condor:6.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0510 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: MRG for RHEL-5 v. 2Fixed in: condor-0:7.6.5-0.14.2.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: condor-0:7.6.5-0.14.2.el6_3
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1Fixed in: condor

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-3416Important

condor: host based authentication does not implement forward-confirmed reverse dns

Aug 14, 2012

References

osvdb.org / 84766
research.cs.wisc.edu / condor/security/vulnerabilities/CONDOR-2012-0002.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1168.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1169.html
secunia.com / advisories/50246
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50294
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/77748
securityfocus.com / bid/55032
securitytracker.com / id