CVE-2012-6324 — Directory traversal vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.0 before Update 2 and 5.1 before Patch 1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors

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MEDIUM

Directory traversal vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.0 before Update 2 and 5.1 before Patch 1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors

Published Dec 21, 2012

4.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.46%

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.0 before Update 2 and 5.1 before Patch 1 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.46% 0.01457

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

EPSS probability 0.01457

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 (12 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.46% (0.01457)	72.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.46% (0.01457)	70.01th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.11% (0.00106)	26.28th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.13% (0.00134)	50.30th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 10, 2024	0.12% (0.00116)	45.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.11% (0.00109)	43.08th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.10% (0.00099)	39.69th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.14% (0.00138)	47.53th	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-22

Path Traversal

References (1)

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0018.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0018.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 21, 2012

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Dec 10, 2012

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-6324

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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