CVE-2012-1180
Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.6%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in nginx before 1.0.14 and 1.1.x before 1.1.17 allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted backend response, in conjunction with a client request.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 10.58% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- Affected
- f5/nginx · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 10.6% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077966.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076646.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076671.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/80124Broken Link
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Mar/65Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48465Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48577Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4530/nginxPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4531/nginxPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2434Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:043Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/5Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52578Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026827Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803856Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74191Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14173096Broken Link
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077966.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076646.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076671.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://osvdb.org/80124Broken Link
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Mar/65Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48465Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48577Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.