CVE-2012-0956

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Published 2012-09-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu before 58.2, during installation, allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML and read arbitrary files via a crafted attribute in the <a> tag of a Twitter feed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`{"endIncluding":"58.1"}`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`49`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`52`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`53`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`54`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`55`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`56`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`57`
ubiquity_slideshow_team	ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu	`58`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.