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CVE-2012-4838

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4838 describes a local information disclosure vulnerability affecting IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) and Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2). This flaw allows local users to extract sensitive data, including account details, SSH/SSL/TLS private keys, SNMPv3 communities, and LDAP credentials, through unspecified side effects of service or maintenance activities. With a CVSS score of 1.9, it has low severity due to requiring local access and medium attack complexity, but could lead to a compromise of sensitive information. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:ibm:flex_system_chassis_management_module:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:h:ibm:integrated_management_module_ii:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 747 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

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79020
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www-947.ibm.com / support/entry/myportal/docdisplay
Broken Link
ibm.com / connections/blogs/PSIRT/entry/flex_system_chassis_management_module_cmm_and_integrated_management_module_2_imm2_potential_security_vulnerability_with_authentication_data_cve_2012_4838_ibm_flex_system8
Vendor Advisory