VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2288

critical
Published 2012-09-04 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Format string vulnerability in the nsrd RPC service in EMC NetWorker 7.6.3 and 7.6.4 before 7.6.4.1, and 8.0 before 8.0.0.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a message.

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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-22525 remote windows verified
Metasploit · 2012-11-07

EMC NetWorker - Format String (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/emc/networker_format_string rank 300
EMC Networker Format String
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
dell emcnetworker7.6.3
dell emcnetworker7.6.4
dell emcnetworker8.0

References

CWEs

CWE-134

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

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