CVE-2012-2972

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) server and (2) agent components in CA ARCserve Backup r12.5, r15, and r16 on Windows do not properly validate RPC requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted request.

Published 2012-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.