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CVE-2012-6501

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6501 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the HP PKI ActiveX control (HPPKI.ocx) prior to version 1.2.0.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to terminate arbitrary processes on a vulnerable system by providing a partial or full process name to the KillProcess method. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and results in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:hp:pki_activex_control:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0209 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 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

secunia.com / advisories/47122
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/72250
osvdb.org / 78272
securityfocus.com / bid/51341