CVE-2012-6151
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 9.5%EU EUVD
Net-SNMP 5.7.1 and earlier, when AgentX is registering to handle a MIB and processing GETNEXT requests, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash or infinite loop, CPU consumption, and hang) by causing the AgentX subagent to timeout.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 9.5% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-6007)
- Published
- December 13, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-6007 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
- net-snmp / net-snmp
References
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00005.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/398
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/415
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55804
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57870
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59974
- http://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2411/(Exploit)
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201409-02.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64048(Exploit)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2166-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038007
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89485
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0322.html
- https://support.apple.com/HT205375
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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