CVE-2012-2662

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.1 and Dogtag Certificate System allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters to the (1) System Agent or (2) End Entity pages.

Published: 2012-08-13 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-2662 is rated Moderate Risk (42.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.37%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +1.13% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-2662

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 0.24% 1.37% +1.13%
2 2025-03-30 0.34% 0.24% -0.11%
3 2025-03-29 0.34%

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-2662

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-2662

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-2662

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2662

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-2662

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
redhat certificate_system <= 8.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat certificate_system 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat certificate_system 7.2 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat certificate_system 7.3 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat certificate_system 8 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat certificate_system 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:certificate_system:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat dogtag_certificate_system cpe:2.3:a:redhat:dogtag_certificate_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-2662

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