# CVE-2012-1985: Cross-site request forgery in n/a

> Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions via CSRF to cause a denial of service in Helix Server.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Apr 2012
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-64wg-mr8j-c94j

## What is CVE-2012-1985?

CVE-2012-1985 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Apr 2012. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in RealNetworks Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server 14.x before 14.3.x allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via a malformed URL.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1985?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Realnetworks Helix Mobile Server, Realnetworks Helix Server.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-1985?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1985 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-1985 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1985 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2010-4235](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4235/): Code injection in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2010-1318](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-1318/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2010-1319](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-1319/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2010-4596](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4596/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2012-0942](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-0942/): Memory corruption in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-1985 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-1985 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 17 Apr 2012. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1985 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1985/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1985/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1985
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1985
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-1985

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.