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CVE-2012-4959

85
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4959 is a critical directory traversal vulnerability in NFRAgent.exe within Novell File Reporter 1.0.2, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary files. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity with network access, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code is readily available, including a Metasploit module and ExploitDB entries, though there is no significant 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
71.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: NFR Agent FSFUI Record File Upload RCE · Nov 16, 2012
ExploitDB: EDB-23323 · Dec 12, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7119 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

community.rapid7.com / community/metasploit/blog/2012/11/16/nfr-agent-buffer-vulnerabilites-cve-2012-4959
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/273371
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