CVE-2012-4362

Exp

hydra.exe in HP SAN/iQ before 9.5 on the HP Virtual SAN Appliance has a hardcoded password of L0CAlu53R for the global$agent account, which allows remote attackers to obtain access to a management service via a login: request to TCP port 13838.

Published: 2012-08-20 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-4362 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 22.12%, 96th percentile). Core evidence: 4 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-2012-4362

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
18901 exploit_db edb 2012-05-21 Exploit-DB ↗
18893 exploit_db edb 2012-02-17 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-4362

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 2026-04-21 24.10% 22.12% -1.98%
2 2025-09-15 7.75% 24.10% +16.35%
3 2025-03-30 7.75%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-4362

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N 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:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-4362

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-4362

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
hp san\/iq 9.5 cpe:2.3:a:hp:san\/iq:9.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-4362

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