CVE-2012-4245 (GCVE-0-2012-4245)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-31 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The scriptfu network server in GIMP 2.6 does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the python-fu-eval command.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
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| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/6 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/GIMP-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55089 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/17/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-b… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2012-08-16 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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