Is CVE-2012-2122 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2012-2122 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2012-2122?

CVE-2012-2122 has a CVSS v2 base score of 5.1 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2012-2122?

CVE-2012-2122 has an EPSS score of 96.19% (100th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2012-2122

MEDIUMEPSS 100th pctl

5.1

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

sql/password.c in Oracle MySQL 5.1.x before 5.1.63, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6, and MariaDB 5.1.x before 5.1.62, 5.2.x before 5.2.12, 5.3.x before 5.3.6, and 5.5.x before 5.5.23, when running in certain environments with certain implementations of the memcmp function, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by repeatedly authenticating with the same incorrect password, which eventually causes a token comparison to succeed due to an improperly-checked return value.

CWE-287Improper Authentication

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

96.19%probability of exploitation in 30 days

100thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-29.