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CVE-2012-4462

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

aviary/jobcontrol.py in Condor, as used in Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3, when removing a job, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (condor_schedd restart) via square brackets in the cproc option.

Affected products

• Condor Project Condor: 7.8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Mrg: 2.3

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0564.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0565.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860850
• https://htcondor-git.cs.wisc.edu/?p=condor.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8f9b304c4f6c0a98dafa61b2c0e4beb3b70e4c84
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0564.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0565.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860850
• https://htcondor-git.cs.wisc.edu/?p=condor.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8f9b304c4f6c0a98dafa61b2c0e4beb3b70e4c84

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