CVE-2012-5192

medium

Published 2014-01-28 · 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

Directory traversal vulnerability in gmap/view_overlay.php in Bitweaver 2.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via "''%2F" (dot dot encoded slash) sequences in the overlay_type parameter.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-22216 webapps php verified

Trustwave's SpiderLabs · 2012-10-24

Bitweaver 2.8.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_scanner/http/bitweaver_overlay_type_traversal rank 300

Bitweaver overlay_type Directory Traversal

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
bitweaver	bitweaver	`{"endIncluding":"2.8.1"}`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`1.1`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`1.1.1_beta`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`1.2.1`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`1.3`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`1.3.1`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`2.0.0`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`2.0.2`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`2.5`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`2.6`
bitweaver	bitweaver	`2.7`

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.