Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-0429

Title: Microfocus Edirectory Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-0429.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 25, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.63%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-0429: dhost in NetIQ eDirectory 8.8.6.x before 8.8.6.7 and 8.8.7.x before 8.8.7.2 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via crafted characters in an HTTP request.

Impacted Vendors

novell 1

microfocus 1

netiq 1

Reference Links

http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3426981 http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7011533 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027912 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772895 http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=3426981 http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7011533 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027912 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772895

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-0429 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 25, 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:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.