Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-0406

Title: Emc Data Protection Advisor Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2012-0406

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Apr 20, 2012

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.55%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-0406: The DPA_Utilities.cProcessAuthenticationData function in EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) 5.5 through 5.8 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an AUTHENTICATECONNECTION command that (1) lacks a password field or (2) has an empty password.

Impacted Vendors

emc 1

dell 1

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/dpa_1-adv.txt http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18688/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522408/30/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026956 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/dpa_1-adv.txt http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18688/ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522408/30/0/threaded http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026956

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-0406 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18688

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 20, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.