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CVE-2012-4956

61
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4956 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell File Reporter 1.0.2, specifically within the NFRAgent.exe component. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with maximum privileges by sending a specially crafted request containing a large number of VOL elements. Despite its critical CVSS score of 10.0 and high FAUCET Risk Score of 99/100, indicating severe impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild. However, a Metasploit module exists, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:file_reporter:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
37.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: NFR Agent Heap Overflow Vulnerability · Nov 16, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3772 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 87574
community.rapid7.com / community/metasploit/blog/2012/11/16/nfr-agent-buffer-vulnerabilites-cve-2012-4959
Exploit
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/273371
US Government Resource