CVE-2012-0300 — Brightmail Control Center in Symantec Message Filter 6.3 does not properly restrict establishment of sessions to the listening port, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive version information via unspecified vectors

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Brightmail Control Center in Symantec Message Filter 6.3 does not properly restrict establishment of sessions to the listening port, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive version information via unspecified vectors

Published Jul 5, 2012

3.3

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.81%

Description

Brightmail Control Center in Symantec Message Filter 6.3 does not properly restrict establishment of sessions to the listening port, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive version information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.81% 0.00806

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00806

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (13 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.81% (0.00806)	55.20th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.81% (0.00806)	51.82th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.15% (0.00153)	33.46th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.18% (0.00179)	56.42th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 10, 2024	0.08% (0.00079)	33.49th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.07% (0.00074)	30.83th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.07% (0.00069)	27.88th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 3, 2024	0.18% (0.00179)	55.17th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.17% (0.00173)	52.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54136
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120626_00
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54136		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2012&suid=20120626_00		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 5, 2012

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jan 4, 2012

Link CVE-2012-0300

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-0300

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-0300