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CVE-2012-6052

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6052 describes an information disclosure vulnerability in Wireshark versions 1.8.x prior to 1.8.4, allowing remote attackers to extract sensitive hostname information from pcap-ng files. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this low-complexity attack requires no authentication and results in a partial confidentiality impact (C:P) without affecting integrity or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wireshark:wireshark:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0221 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6052Low

wireshark: pcap-ng hostname disclosure (wnpa-sec-2012-30)

Nov 28, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-12/msg00022.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00042.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16040
wireshark.org / security/wnpa-sec-2012-30.html
Vendor Advisory