CVE-2012-5588

low

Published 2012-12-26 · 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

2.6

Description

The Email Field module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.3 for Drupal, when using a field permission module and the field contact field formatter is set to the full or teaser display mode, does not properly check permissions, which allows remote attackers to email the stored address via unspecified vectors.

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
epiqo	email	`6.x-1.0`
epiqo	email	`6.x-1.1`
epiqo	email	`6.x-1.2`
epiqo	email	`6.x-1.x`
drupal	drupal	`-`

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.