National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4556
Original release date:01/04/2013
Last revised:01/15/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd web server child process restart) via certain unspecified empty search fields in a user certificate search query.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869579
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1027846
External Source: BID
Name: 56843
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 51482
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1550
Type: Advisory