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CVE-2012-5972

CVE-2012-5972 — SpecView Directory Traversal

Directory traversal vulnerability in the web server in SpecView 2.5 build 853 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ... (dot dot dot) in a URI.

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, icscert

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

5%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

specview

specview

CVSS base

2.6

LOW

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Vendors (1)

Products (1)

specview

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
2.6CVSS 2.0LOWcvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-23

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Indexed by

exploit db

References

3 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • specviewevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-23other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.