National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-6112
Original release date:01/27/2013
Last revised:01/30/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
classes/GoogleSpell.php in the PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) addon before 2.0.6.1 for TinyMCE, as used in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 and other products, does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20130121 Moodle security notifications public
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)