{"api_version":"1","generated_at":"2026-04-23T04:09:34+00:00","cve":"CVE-2012-2972","urls":{"html":"https://cve.report/CVE-2012-2972","api":"https://cve.report/api/cve/CVE-2012-2972.json","docs":"https://cve.report/api","cve_org":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2972","nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2972"},"summary":{"title":"CVE-2012-2972","description":"The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request.","state":"PUBLIC","assigner":"cert@cert.org","published_at":"2012-10-20 10:41:00","updated_at":"2023-11-07 02:11:00"},"problem_types":["CWE-20"],"metrics":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/51012","name":"51012","refsource":"SECUNIA","tags":[],"title":"Security Advisory SA51012 - CA ARCserve Backup RPC Services Two Vulnerabilities - Secunia","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/408099","name":"VU#408099","refsource":"CERT-VN","tags":["US Government Resource"],"title":"US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#408099 - CA ARCserve Backup authentication service denial-of-service vulnerability","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/86415","name":"86415","refsource":"OSVDB","tags":[],"title":"","mime":"","httpstatus":"-1","archivestatus":"0"},{"url":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=%7BF9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1%7D","name":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID=%7BF9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1%7D","refsource":"","tags":[],"title":"error - ecx_site - ECX","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"404","archivestatus":"400"},{"url":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID={F9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1}","name":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID={F9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1}","refsource":"CONFIRM","tags":["Broken Link"],"title":"404 Not Found","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"404","archivestatus":"400"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html","name":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html","refsource":"CONFIRM","tags":[],"title":"Security Notice For CA ARCserve Backup ≈ Packet Storm","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79477","name":"arcserve-backup-rpc-dos(79477)","refsource":"XF","tags":[],"title":"IBM X-Force Exchange","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/86","name":"20130114 Updated - CA20121018-01: Security Notice for CA ARCserve Backup","refsource":"FULLDISC","tags":[],"title":"Full Disclosure: Updated - CA20121018-01: Security Notice for CA\tARCserve Backup","mime":"text/html","httpstatus":"200","archivestatus":"200"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-2972","name":"CVE Program record","refsource":"CVE.ORG","tags":["canonical"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2972","name":"NVD vulnerability detail","refsource":"NVD","tags":["canonical","analysis"]}],"affected":[],"timeline":[],"solutions":[],"workarounds":[],"exploits":[],"credits":[],"nvd_cpes":[{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"ca","cpe5":"arcserve_backup","cpe6":"r12.5","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"ca","cpe5":"arcserve_backup","cpe6":"r15.0","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"ca","cpe5":"arcserve_backup","cpe6":"r16.0","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"1","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"ca","cpe5":"arcserve_backup","cpe6":"r12.5","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"1","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"ca","cpe5":"arcserve_backup","cpe6":"r15.0","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"1","versionEndIncluding":"1","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"a","cpe4":"ca","cpe5":"arcserve_backup","cpe6":"r16.0","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"-1","versionEndIncluding":"","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"o","cpe4":"microsoft","cpe5":"windows","cpe6":"*","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"},{"cve_year":"2012","cve_id":"2972","vulnerable":"0","versionEndIncluding":"1","cpe1":"cpe","cpe2":"2.3","cpe3":"o","cpe4":"microsoft","cpe5":"windows","cpe6":"*","cpe7":"*","cpe8":"*","cpe9":"*","cpe10":"*","cpe11":"*","cpe12":"*","cpe13":"*"}],"vendor_comments":[],"enrichments":{"kev":null,"epss":null,"legacy_qids":[]},"source_records":{"cve_program":{"CVE_data_meta":{"ASSIGNER":"cert@cert.org","ID":"CVE-2012-2972","STATE":"PUBLIC"},"affects":{"vendor":{"vendor_data":[{"product":{"product_data":[{"product_name":"n/a","version":{"version_data":[{"version_value":"n/a"}]}}]},"vendor_name":"n/a"}]}},"data_format":"MITRE","data_type":"CVE","data_version":"4.0","description":{"description_data":[{"lang":"eng","value":"The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request."}]},"problemtype":{"problemtype_data":[{"description":[{"lang":"eng","value":"n/a"}]}]},"references":{"reference_data":[{"name":"20130114 Updated - CA20121018-01: Security Notice for CA ARCserve Backup","refsource":"FULLDISC","url":"http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/86"},{"name":"arcserve-backup-rpc-dos(79477)","refsource":"XF","url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79477"},{"name":"86415","refsource":"OSVDB","url":"http://osvdb.org/86415"},{"name":"VU#408099","refsource":"CERT-VN","url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/408099"},{"name":"51012","refsource":"SECUNIA","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/51012"},{"name":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID={F9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1}","refsource":"CONFIRM","url":"https://support.ca.com/irj/portal/anonymous/phpsupcontent?contentID={F9EEA31E-8089-423E-B746-41B5C9DD2AC1}"},{"name":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html","refsource":"CONFIRM","url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/119543/Security-Notice-For-CA-ARCserve-Backup.html"}]}},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2012-10-20 10:41:00","lastModifiedDate":"2023-11-07 02:11:00","problem_types":["CWE-20"],"metrics":{"baseMetricV2":{"cvssV2":{"version":"2.0","vectorString":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","accessVector":"NETWORK","accessComplexity":"LOW","authentication":"NONE","confidentialityImpact":"NONE","integrityImpact":"NONE","availabilityImpact":"PARTIAL","baseScore":5},"severity":"MEDIUM","exploitabilityScore":10,"impactScore":2.9,"obtainAllPrivilege":false,"obtainUserPrivilege":false,"obtainOtherPrivilege":false,"userInteractionRequired":false}},"configurations":{"CVE_data_version":"4.0","nodes":[{"operator":"AND","children":[{"operator":"OR","children":[],"cpe_match":[{"vulnerable":false,"cpe23Uri":"cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe_name":[]}]}],"cpe_match":[]}]}},"legacy_mitre":{"record":{"CveYear":"2012","CveId":"2972","Ordinal":"55716","Title":"CVE-2012-2972","CVE":"CVE-2012-2972","Year":"2012"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2012","CveId":"2972","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request.","Type":"Description","Title":null},{"CveYear":"2012","CveId":"2972","Ordinal":"2","NoteData":"2012-10-20","Type":"Other","Title":"Published"},{"CveYear":"2012","CveId":"2972","Ordinal":"3","NoteData":"2017-11-29","Type":"Other","Title":"Modified"}]}}}