CVE-2012-1588
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
3.5
Description
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the _filter_url function in the text filtering system (modules/filter/filter.module) in Drupal 7.x before 7.14 allows remote authenticated users with certain roles to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long email address.
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://drupal.org/drupal-7.14
- http://drupal.org/node/1557938
- http://drupal.org/node/1558468
- http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/commit/db79496ae983447506f016a20738c3d7e5d059fa
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49012
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:074
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53368
- http://drupal.org/drupal-7.14
- http://drupal.org/node/1557938
- http://drupal.org/node/1558468
- http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/commit/db79496ae983447506f016a20738c3d7e5d059fa
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49012
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:074
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53368
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.