CVE-2012-1180
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 10.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-416
- EPSS score
- 10.6% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1209)
- Published
- April 17, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1209 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- debian / debian linux
- f5 / nginx
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/077966.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076646.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/076671.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://nginx.org/download/patch.2012.memory.txt(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://nginx.org/en/security_advisories.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/80124(Broken Link)
- http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Mar/65(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48465(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48577(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-22.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4530/nginx(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/4531/nginx(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2434(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:043(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/5(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/9(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52578(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026827(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803856(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74191(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/14173096(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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