CVE-2012-1586

Exp

mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message.

Published: 2012-08-27 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-1586 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.61%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2012-1586

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
18783 exploit_db edb 2012-04-25 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-1586

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 2026-04-28 0.51% 0.61% +0.10%
2 2025-07-12 0.23% 0.51% +0.29%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.23% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-1586

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-1586

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-1586

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2012-1586 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (cifs-utils), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1586
redhat low — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1586
suse low CVE-2012-1586 severity low: SUSE including 25 source package names (cifs-utils-5.1-0.11.1, cifs-utils-5.1-0.14.46, …), 37 product×package rows across 31 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, … (31 product lines)): Fixed 37. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1586/
ubuntu low CVE-2012-1586 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cifs-utils), 25 status rows across 25 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hardy, hirsute, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 16, not-affected 6, DNE 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-1586

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-1586

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
debian cifs-utils 2.6 cpe:2.3:a:debian:cifs-utils:2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-1586

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