CVE-2012-4253

medium

Published 2012-08-13 · 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

5.3

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in MySQLDumper 1.24.4 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) language parameter to learn/cubemail/install.php or (2) f parameter learn/cubemail/filemanagement.php, or execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the (3) config parameter to learn/cubemail/menu.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-37126 webapps perl verified

AkaStep · 2012-04-27

MySQLDumper 1.24.4 - 'install.php?language' Traversal Arbitrary File Access

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-37129 webapps php verified

AkaStep · 2012-04-27

MySQLDumper 1.24.4 - 'filemanagement.php?f' Traversal Arbitrary File Access

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mysqldumper	mysqldumper	`1.24.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

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