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CVE-2012-6095

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6095 describes a race condition vulnerability in ProFTPD versions prior to 1.3.5rc1, specifically when the UserOwner directive is enabled. A local attacker can exploit this flaw via symlink attacks on the MKD or XMKD commands to modify the ownership of arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 1.2, this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and high attack complexity, with a potential impact limited to partial integrity compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proftpd:proftpd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proftpd:proftpd:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proftpd:proftpd:1.2.0:pre10:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proftpd:proftpd:1.2.0:pre9:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:proftpd:proftpd:1.2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.2LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.proftpd.org / show_bug.cgi
proftpd.org / docs/NEWS-1.3.5rc1
secunia.com / advisories/51823
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2606
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2013/01/07/3