CVE-2012-3451

mediumpriority · track · 20EPSS 0.089 · 95 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

8.88% (95th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Apache CXF before 2.4.9, 2.5.x before 2.5.5, and 2.6.x before 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to execute unintended web-service operations by sending a header with a SOAP Action String that is inconsistent with the message body.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-20US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apache cxf< 2.4.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache cxf2.5.0 → 2.5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache cxf2.6.0 → 2.6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:cxf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf< 2.4.9osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.cxf/cxf
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf2.5.0 → 2.5.5osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.cxf/cxf
Maven org.apache.cxf:cxf2.6.0 → 2.6.2osvUSpkg:maven/org.apache.cxf/cxf

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-55j7-f5wf-43m4Remote web-service operation execution in Apache CXF2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
Apache CXF before 2.4.9, 2.5.x before 2.5.5, and 2.6.x before 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to execute unintended web-service operations by sending a header with a SOAP Action String that is inconsistent with the message body.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-09-24modified 2026-06-16

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references (69)

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