CVE-2012-1985 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 14.x before 14.3.x allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via a malformed URL

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 14.x before 14.3.x allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via a malformed URL

Published Apr 17, 2012

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.97%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 14.x before 14.3.x allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via a malformed URL.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.97% 0.00969

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

EPSS probability 0.00969

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.97% (0.00969)	60.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.98% (0.00980)	57.48th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.22% (0.00220)	42.61th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.26% (0.00259)	66.10th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.26% (0.00259)	64.62th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.26% (0.00259)	61.82th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.61th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 17, 2023	1.21% (0.01213)	66.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	64.21th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.21% (0.01213)	40.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (4)

http://helixproducts.real.com/docs/security/SecurityUpdate04022012HS.pdf
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52929
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026898
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74678
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://helixproducts.real.com/docs/security/SecurityUpdate04022012HS.pdf		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52929		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026898		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74678		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Apr 17, 2012

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Mar 30, 2012

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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