National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6037
Original release date:11/24/2012
Last revised:02/08/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and other versions including 1.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSV header with "unknown fields," which are not properly handled in error messages in the (1) bulk user, (2) group, and (3) group member upload capabilities. NOTE: this issue was originally part of CVE-2012-2243, but that ID was SPLIT due to different issues by different researchers.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1063480
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2591
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)