CVE-2012-4613

medium

Published 2012-11-16 · 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

6.9

Description

EMC RSA Data Protection Manager Appliance 2.7.x and 3.x before 3.2.1 does not properly restrict the number of authentication attempts by a user account, which makes it easier for local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a brute-force attack.

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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