CVE-2012-2770
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The Authen::ExternalAuth extension before 0.11 for Best Practical Solutions RT allows remote attackers to obtain a logged-in session via unspecified vectors related to the "URL of a RSS feed of the user."
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.
References
- http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-July/000208.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50060
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54681
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77213
- http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-announce/2012-July/000208.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50060
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54681
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/77213
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.