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CVE-2012-4460

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4460 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Apache Qpid versions 0.20 and earlier. It stems from flaws in the qpid::framing::Buffer class's serializing/deserializing functions, which can lead to an assertion failure and daemon exit. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is network-exploitable with low complexity and requires no authentication, primarily impacting availability. Despite its potential to cause a denial of service, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:qpid:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0318 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4460Moderate

qpid-cpp: lack of bounds checking in qpid::framing::Buffer can lead to DoS if asserts are enabled

Mar 5, 2013

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
issues.apache.org / jira/browse/QPID-4629
issues.apache.org / jira/issues
svn.apache.org / viewvc
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