CVE-2012-10037

CRITICALNVD 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This critical-severity CVE scores 9.3 under NVD CVSS. EPSS exploit probability: 1.9% (80th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS
Weaponized

Also known asEUVD-2012-6598 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix is confirmed yet: check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.9%CVSS: 9.3Exploit: MetasploitExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

PhpTax version 0.8 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in drawimage.php. The pfilez GET parameter is unsafely passed to the exec() function without sanitization. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary shell commands, leading to code execution under the web server's context. No authentication is required.

CVSS
9.3
EG Score
9.3CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
83
EG Risk 83/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
1.9%
EPSS %ILE
80th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.3 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix is confirmed yet. Check with the vendor for a fixed release; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 11, 2025

Last Modified

April 15, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
No fix on record yet.
Web page

PhpTax - 'pfilez' Execution Remote Code Injection (Metasploit) - PHP webapps Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21833
Web page

phptax 0.8 - Remote Code Execution - PHP webapps Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21665
Web page

PhpTax - Free Income Tax Software. download | SourceForge.net

https://sourceforge.net/projects/phptax/

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 59× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 229 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 129 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-13 07:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-13 07:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  3. 2026-11-12 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.9% · 80th percentile
  4. 2026-11-12 06:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-12 06:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  6. 2026-11-11 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  7. 2026-11-11 05:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-11 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  9. 2026-11-10 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 04:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  11. 2026-11-10 04:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  12. 2026-11-09 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  13. 2026-11-09 04:11 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-09 04:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  15. 2026-11-08 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  16. 2026-11-08 03:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-08 03:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  18. 2026-11-07 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  19. 2026-11-07 02:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  20. 2026-11-07 02:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  21. 2026-11-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  22. 2026-11-06 01:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  23. 2026-11-06 01:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  24. 2026-11-05 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
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  1. 2026-11-05 00:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  2. 2026-11-04 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  3. 2026-11-04 00:02 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-04 00:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  5. 2026-11-03 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  6. 2026-11-02 23:13 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-02 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  8. 2026-11-02 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  9. 2026-11-01 22:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-01 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  11. 2026-11-01 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.8% · 79th percentile
  12. 2026-10-31 21:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-10-31 21:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  14. 2026-10-31 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  15. 2026-10-30 20:48 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-10-30 20:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  17. 2026-10-30 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
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  19. 2026-10-29 20:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  20. 2026-10-29 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  21. 2026-10-28 19:12 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-10-28 19:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  23. 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
  24. 2026-10-27 18:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-10-27 18:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
  26. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.7% · 77th percentile
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  28. 2026-10-26 17:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  38. 2026-10-23 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  44. 2026-10-21 12:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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  47. 2026-10-20 12:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-62c8-77mw-jf34 · GitHub severity CRITICAL
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module). No fix is confirmed yet, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is published.

  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/phptax_exec✓ verified
    Published Dec 18, 2012

    PhpTax pfilez Parameter Exec Remote Code Injection

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2012-10037?
CVE-2012-10037 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 11, 2025. PhpTax version 0.8 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in drawimage.php. The pfilez GET parameter is unsafely passed to the exec() function without sanitization. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary shell commands, leading to code execution under the web server's context. No…
When was CVE-2012-10037 made public?
CVE-2012-10037 was made public on October 2, 2012: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 11, 2025. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 15, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2012-10037 actively exploited?
CVE-2012-10037 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (80th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2012-10037?
CVE-2012-10037 has a CVSS base score of 9.3 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2012-10037?
No fix for CVE-2012-10037 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch for a fix.

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