VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2012-5885

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 8.98%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The replay-countermeasure functionality in the HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.36, 6.x before 6.0.36, and 7.x before 7.0.30 tracks cnonce (aka client nonce) values instead of nonce (aka server nonce) and nc (aka nonce-count) values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by sniffing the network for valid requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1184.

CVSS 2.0: 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS: 8.98% probability · 95th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-264
Affected: apache/tomcat
Source: cve@mitre.org

EPSS trend

EPSS 9.0% since 26 October 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

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.