CVE-2012-5168
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
ATutor AContent before 1.2-1 allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary user passwords or category names via a direct request to (1) user/index_inline_editor_submit.php or (2) course_category/index_inline_editor_submit.php.
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| atutor | acontent | {"endIncluding":"1.2"} | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0095.html
- http://osvdb.org/86428
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51014
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51034
- http://update.atutor.ca/acontent/patch/1_2/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56100
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79461
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79462
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23117
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0095.html
- http://osvdb.org/86428
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51014
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51034
- http://update.atutor.ca/acontent/patch/1_2/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56100
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79461
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79462
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23117
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.