Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 5.0

CVE-2011-4612 json

icecast before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to inject control characters such as newlines into the error loc (error.log) via a crafted URL.

published 2012-11-20 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-4536

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.2%
EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

icecast before 2.3.3 allows remote attackers to inject control characters such as newlines into the error loc (error.log) via a crafted URL.

Patch / fix

  • icecast2 Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4612

  • icecast openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.4.2-1.7

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10067-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-4612 updated cvss 5.0

icecast2: Newline injection in error.log

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.