CVE-2012-1923

low
Published 2012-04-17 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 14.x before 14.3.x store passwords in cleartext under adm_b_db\users\, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a database.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
realnetworkshelix_server14.0.0
realnetworkshelix_server14.0.1
realnetworkshelix_server14.2
realnetworkshelix_server14.2.0.212
realnetworkshelix_mobile_server14.0.0
realnetworkshelix_mobile_server14.0.1

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.