CVE-2012-4556

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The token processing system (pki-tps) in Red Hat Certificate System (RHCS) before 8.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd web server child process restart) via certain unspecified empty search fields in a user certificate search query.

Affected products

Red Hat Certificate System: through 8.1.1; 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1550.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51482
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56843
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027846
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869579
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1550.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51482
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56843
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027846
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869579

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