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CVE-2012-6151

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6151 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Net-SNMP versions 5.7.1 and earlier, including implementations on Apple macOS and Ubuntu Linux. A remote attacker can exploit this by causing an AgentX subagent to timeout during GETNEXT requests, leading to a crash, infinite loop, or high CPU consumption. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity) and an AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P vector, it requires moderate attack complexity but can result in a complete denial of service. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-38854) exists, indicating public exploit code, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38854 · Sep 5, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0945 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: net-snmp-1:5.3.2.2-22.el5_10.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: net-snmp-1:5.5-44.el6_4.4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-6151Moderate

net-snmp: snmpd crashes/hangs when AgentX subagent times-out

Sep 5, 2012

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00005.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
seclists.org / oss-sec/2013/q4/398
seclists.org / oss-sec/2013/q4/415
secunia.com / advisories/55804
secunia.com / advisories/57870
secunia.com / advisories/59974
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/89485
sourceforge.net / p/net-snmp/bugs/2411
Exploit
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html
support.apple.com / HT205375
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/64048
Exploit
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2166-1