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CVE-2012-4122

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4122 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS, allowing authenticated local users to bypass access restrictions and manipulate arbitrary files through shell output redirection. With a CVSS score of 6.2, this vulnerability has high impact on integrity and availability, requiring local access and user authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:nx-os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.2MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
9.2
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Patches (1)

ciscovendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

osvdb.org / 98121
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/87672
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityNotice/CVE-2012-4122
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/62843
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry