CVE-2012-4503
cmdmon.c in Chrony before 1.29 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from stack memory via vectors related to (1) an invalid subnet in a RPY_SUBNETS_ACCESSED command to the handle_subnets_accessed function or (2) a RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES command to the handle_client_accesses function when client logging is disabled, which causes uninitialized data to be included in a reply.
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-200
- EPSS score
- 3.1% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-4432)
- Published
- November 5, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-4432 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tuxfamily / chrony
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References
- http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=c6fdeeb6bb0b17dc28c19ae492c4a1c498e54ea3
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.chrony.announce/15(Vendor Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/332(Patch)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2760
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846392
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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