Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2012-5445

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5445 describes a kernel vulnerability in Cisco Native Unix (CNU) on Cisco Unified IP Phone 7900 series devices running software before 9.3.1-ES10. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through a memory overwrite by submitting a specially crafted binary. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring local access and authentication for exploitation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9.2\(4\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:skinny_client_control_protocol_software:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0\(1\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:skinny_client_control_protocol_software:1.0\(1\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:skinny_client_control_protocol_software:1.0\(2\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0\(2\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:skinny_client_control_protocol_software:1.0\(2\):sr1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0\(3\)CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:cisco:skinny_client_control_protocol_software:1.0\(3\):*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

events.ccc.de / congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5400.en.html
tools.cisco.com / security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20130109-uipphone