CVE•Published 2012-11-30•Modified 2026-10-09•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2012-5568Apache · Tomcat
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
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EPSS percentile
95
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs
Description
Apache Tomcat through 7.0.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) via partial HTTP requests, as demonstrated by Slowloris.
Timeline
Published 2012-11-30
Modified 2026-10-09
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2012-5568Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product
product:"Apache Tomcat"All exposed Apache Tomcat instances — cross-reference with the CVE's affected-version range.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Tomcat"HTTP body or banner mentions "Tomcat" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2012-5568Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2012-5568Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2012-5568Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2012-5568GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2012-5568" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (4)
CVE-2012-55684 repos
Orange-Cyberdefense/awesome-industrial-protocolsunknown
Security-oriented list of resources about industrial network protocols.
h0ussni/pwnlorisPython
dusbot/cpe2cveGo
A tool written in Go that queries CVE information using CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) as input, with support for library integration（使用go实现的一个根据cpe查询cve信息的工具，支持库调用）
bodrick/awesome-starsunknown