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CVE-2012-3487

Status: ModifiedLow (1.2)—

Race condition in Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier allows local users to kill unintended processes by waiting for a specific PID value to be assigned to a target process.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Google — Tunnelblick

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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          "vectorString": "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N",
          "authentication": "NONE",
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  "published": "2012-08-26T19:55:02.120",
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:43:19.203",
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