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CVE-2012-2191

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
08/08/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

IBM Global Security Kit (aka GSKit) before 8.0.14.22, as used in IBM Rational Directory Server, IBM Tivoli Directory Server, and other products, does not properly validate data during execution of a protection mechanism against the Vaudenay SSL CBC timing attack, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted values in the TLS Record Layer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-2333.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:global_security_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 8.0.13 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:global_security_kit:7.0.4.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:global_security_kit:7.0.4.29:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:rational_directory_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:tivoli_directory_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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