CVE-2012-2944
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 6.2%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools (NUT) before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (electric-power outage) via a long string containing non-printable characters.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 6.2% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2923)
- Published
- June 1, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2923 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
- networkupstools / nut
References
- http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=313636(Exploit)
- http://networkupstools.org/docs/user-manual.chunked/apis01.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49348(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50389
- http://trac.networkupstools.org/projects/nut/changeset/3633
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2484
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:087
- http://www.osvdb.org/82409
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53743
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75980
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15514634
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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