CVE-2012-0698

Exp

tcsd in TrouSerS before 0.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted type_offset value in a TCP packet to port 30003.

Published: 2012-11-26 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-0698 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.51%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-0698

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
22904 exploit_db edb 2012-11-23 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-0698

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 18.87% 10.51% -8.36%
2 2025-04-25 27.02% 18.87% -8.15%
3 2025-03-30 27.02%

Full EPSS history (19 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-0698

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-0698

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-0698

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2012-0698 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (trousers), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0698
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0698
ubuntu low CVE-2012-0698 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (trousers), 15 status rows across 15 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, ignored 5, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-0698

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-0698

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
trustedcomputinggroup trousers <= 0.3.9 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.2.8 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.2.9 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.2.9.1 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.2.9.2 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.2.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.1 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.2 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.3 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.4 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.5 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.6 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.7 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
trustedcomputinggroup trousers 0.3.8 cpe:2.3:a:trustedcomputinggroup:trousers:0.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-0698

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