VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-6123

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-10-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references