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CVE-2012-4559

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4559 describes multiple double free vulnerabilities within various functions of libssh versions prior to 0.5.3. These flaws, found in agent.c, channels.c, auth.c, sftp.c, and keyfiles.c, could be triggered by remote attackers. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, medium complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (denial of service and possible arbitrary code execution). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:0.5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0518 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093313.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093474.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00021.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80218
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2577
libssh.org / 2012/11/20/libssh-0-5-3-security-release
Vendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/3
securityfocus.com / bid/56604
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1640-1