{"id":"CVE-2012-2972","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-2972","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:21:22.634Z","title":"The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request.","description":"The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request.","published":"2012-10-20T10:41:27.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:42:27.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cret@cert.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.03467,"percentile":0.88979,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.47%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://osvdb.org/86415","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/86","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/51012","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/408099","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79477","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=%7BF9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1%7D","source":"cret@cert.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/86415","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/86","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/51012","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/408099","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79477","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=%7BF9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1%7D","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2972","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}