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CVE-2012-5686

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CVE-2012-5686 describes a critical vulnerability in ZPanel 10.0.1, stemming from insufficient entropy in its password reset process. This flaw allows for easy exploitation, as indicated by its CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), enabling unauthenticated attackers to potentially compromise user accounts and gain full control over the affected system. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, demonstrating its exploitability, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zpanelcp:zpanel:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22490 · Nov 5, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0476 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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/79841
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/56400
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry