What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-6277

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Autonomy KeyView IDOL before 10.16, as used in Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange before 6.5.8, Symantec Mail Security for Domino before 8.1.1, Symantec Messaging Gateway before 10.0.1, Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) before 11.6.1, IBM Notes 8.5.x, IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.x before 8.5.3 FP4, and other products, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted file, related to "a number of underlying issues" in which "some of these cases demonstrated memory corruption with attacker-controlled input and could be exploited to run arbitrary code."

Affected products

• HP Autonomy Keyview Idol: before 10.16 — fixed in 10.16
• IBM Corporation Domino: from 8.5.0 through 8.5.3.6
• IBM Notes: from 8.5 through 8.5.3
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint: from 11.0 before 11.6.1 — fixed in 11.6.1
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers: from 11.0 before 11.6.1 — fixed in 11.6.1
• Symantec Mail Security: through 6.5.7; through 8.1.0; 6.5.7
• Symantec Messaging Gateway: from 9.5 before 10.0.1 — fixed in 10.0.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HP Autonomy Keyview Idol 10.16; Symantec Data Loss Prevention Endpoint 11.6.1; Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce/Detection Servers 11.6.1; Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.0.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.symsa1262.html
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=27482
• https://vulmon.com/vulnerabilitydetails?qid=CVE-2012-6277
• https://www.energy.gov/cio/articles/v-118-ibm-lotus-domino-multiple-vulnerabilities
• https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-security-vulnerabilities-addressed-in-ibm-notes-9-0-cve-2011-3026-cve-2012-6349-cve-2012-6277/
• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/849841/
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56610
• https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67192
• https://support.symantec.com/us/en/article.symsa1262.html
• https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=27482
• https://vulmon.com/vulnerabilitydetails?qid=CVE-2012-6277
• https://www.energy.gov/cio/articles/v-118-ibm-lotus-domino-multiple-vulnerabilities

Get alerted when CVE-2012-6277 or the next vulnerability affects your stack