CVE-2012-5552

medium

Published 2012-12-03 · 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

5.0

Description

The Password policy module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.5 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3 for Drupal allows remote attackers to obtain password hashes by sniffing the network, related to "client-side password history checks."

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
erikwebb	password_policy	`6.x-1.0`
erikwebb	password_policy	`6.x-1.1`
erikwebb	password_policy	`6.x-1.2`
erikwebb	password_policy	`6.x-1.3`
erikwebb	password_policy	`6.x-1.4`
erikwebb	password_policy	`6.x-1.x`
erikwebb	password_policy	`7.x-1.0`
erikwebb	password_policy	`7.x-1.1`
erikwebb	password_policy	`7.x-1.2`
erikwebb	password_policy	`7.x-1.3`
erikwebb	password_policy	`7.x-1.x`
drupal	drupal	`-`

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.