CVE-2012-5877

Exp

Nero MediaHome 4.5.8.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an HTTP header without a name.

Published: 2014-05-30 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5877 is rated High Exploit Risk (62.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.68%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 3 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-2012-5877

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
24022 exploit_db edb 2013-01-10 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5877

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 13.87% 7.68% -6.19%
2 2026-01-13 14.75% 13.87% -0.88%
3 2025-08-26 14.75%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5877

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-2012-5877

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2012-5877

Comment: Per http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference"

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5877

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
nero mediahome <= 4.5.8.0 cpe:2.3:a:nero:mediahome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5877

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