Revelation 0.4.13-2 and earlier uses only the first 32 characters of a password followed by a sequence of zeros, which reduces the entropy…

published 2012-06-27 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2722

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits: 0; none known

Revelation 0.4.13-2 and earlier uses only the first 32 characters of a password followed by a sequence of zeros, which reduces the entropy and makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to crack passwords and obtain access to keys via a brute-force attack.

Patch / fix

distros 1

revelation Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.4.11-10

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2742

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red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2742 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 3.7

revelation: Limits effective password length to 32 characters and doesn't iterate the passphrase through SHA algorithm to derive the encryption key

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

1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% 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:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2012-2742
NVD CVE-2012-2742

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Summary