CVE-2012-3996

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Published 2012-07-12 · 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

6.0

Description

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware 8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the installation path via a direct request to (1) admin/include_calendar.php, (2) tiki-rss_error.php, or (3) tiki-watershed_service.php.

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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-19573 webapps php verified

EgiX · 2012-07-04

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 8.3 - 'Unserialize()' PHP Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-19630 webapps php verified

Metasploit · 2012-07-09

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 8.3 - 'Unserialize()' PHP Code Execution (Metasploit)

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`{"endIncluding":"8.2"}`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`2.2`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`3.0`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`3.1`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`3.2`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`3.3`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`3.4`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`3.5`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`4`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`4.0`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`4.1`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`4.2`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`5.0`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`5.1`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`5.2`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`5.3`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`6.0`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`6.1`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`6.2`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`7.0`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`7.1`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`7.2`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`8.0`
tiki	tikiwiki_cms\/groupware	`8.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.