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CVE-2012-2685 json

Cumin before 0.1.5444, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Messaging, Realtime, and Grid (MRG) 2.0, allows remote authenticated users to cause a…

published 2012-09-28 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2667

cvss
4.0
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

Cumin before 0.1.5444, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Messaging, Realtime, and Grid (MRG) 2.0, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large size in an image request.

Patch / fix

  • cumin enterprise mrg 2 0.1.5444-3.el6
  • condor enterprise mrg 2 7.6.5-0.22.el6
  • sesame enterprise mrg 2 1.0-6.el6
  • wallaby enterprise mrg 2 0.12.5-10.el6
  • rubygems enterprise mrg 2 1.8.16-1.el6
  • ruby-json enterprise mrg 2 1.4.6-10.el6
  • condor-qmf enterprise mrg 2 7.6.5-0.22.el6
  • condor-kbdd enterprise mrg 2 7.6.5-0.22.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:1281RHSA-2012:1278

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-2012-2685 updated cvss 5.0

cumin: DoS via large image requests

  • Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1 cumin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat MRG Grid Execute Node for RHEL 5 Server v.2 condor 7.6.5-0.22.el5, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el5, condor-qmf 7.6.5-0.22.el5, condor-kbdd 7.6.5-0.22.el5, condor-wallaby 4.1.3-1.el5, ruby-wallaby 0.12.5-10.el5, +7 more Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server v.2 sesame 1.0-4.el5, cumin 0.1.5444-3.el5, condor 7.6.5-0.22.el5, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el5, condor-qmf 7.6.5-0.22.el5, condor-kbdd 7.6.5-0.22.el5, +11 more Red Hat MRG Management for RHEL 5 Server v.2 sesame 1.0-4.el5, cumin 0.1.5444-3.el5, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el5, python-wallaby 0.12.5-10.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1278
  • Red Hat MRG Grid Execute Node for RHEL 6 ComputeNode v.2 condor 7.6.5-0.22.el6, rubygems 1.8.16-1.el6, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el6, condor-qmf 7.6.5-0.22.el6, condor-kbdd 7.6.5-0.22.el6, condor-wallaby 4.1.3-1.el6, +9 more Red Hat MRG Grid Execute Node for RHEL 6 Server v.2 condor 7.6.5-0.22.el6, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el6, condor-qmf 7.6.5-0.22.el6, condor-kbdd 7.6.5-0.22.el6, condor-wallaby 4.1.3-1.el6, ruby-wallaby 0.12.5-10.el6, +7 more Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL 6 Server v.2 sesame 1.0-6.el6, cumin 0.1.5444-3.el6, condor 7.6.5-0.22.el6, rubygems 1.8.16-1.el6, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el6, ruby-json 1.4.6-10.el6, +43 more Red Hat MRG Management for RHEL 6 ComputeNode v.2 sesame 1.0-6.el6 Red Hat MRG Management for RHEL 6 Server v.2 sesame 1.0-6.el6, cumin 0.1.5444-3.el6, wallaby 0.12.5-10.el6, python-wallaby 0.12.5-10.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1281
  • Red Hat MRG Messaging for RHEL 5 Server v.2 sesame 1.0-4.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1278
  • Red Hat MRG Messaging for RHEL 6 Server v.2 sesame 1.0-6.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1281

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

2.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=830248 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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