CVE-2012-5920

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.4 through 2.5 Final, as used in JBoss Operations Network (ON) 3.1.1 and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-4563.

Published: 2012-11-20 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5920 is rated Low Risk (35.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.33%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5920

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 2025-03-30 0.39% 0.33% -0.06%
2 2025-03-29 0.25% 0.39% +0.13%
3 2023-03-07 0.25%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5920

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-2012-5920

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-5920

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5920

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5920

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
google web_toolkit 2.4 cpe:2.3:a:google:web_toolkit:2.4:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
google web_toolkit 2.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:google:web_toolkit:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google web_toolkit 2.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:google:web_toolkit:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
google web_toolkit 2.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:google:web_toolkit:2.5.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
google web_toolkit 2.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:google:web_toolkit:2.5.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5920

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