Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-6090

Title: Swi-Prolog RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-6090.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 04, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-6090: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the expand function in os/pl-glob.c in SWI-Prolog before 6.2.5 and 6.3.x before 6.3.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted filename.

Impacted Vendors

swi-prolog 1

Reference Links

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/7 http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commit/b2c88972e7515ada025e97e7d3ce3e34f81cf33e https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577 https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2012/009428.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/7 http://www.swi-prolog.org/git/pl.git/commit/b2c88972e7515ada025e97e7d3ce3e34f81cf33e https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891577 https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/pipermail/swi-prolog/2012/009428.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-6090 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.

January 04, 2013 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.