CVE-2012-5653

medium
Published 2013-01-03 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.0
VIR risk
6.0

Description

The file upload feature in Drupal 6.x before 6.27 and 7.x before 7.18 allows remote authenticated users to bypass the protection mechanism and execute arbitrary PHP code via a null byte in a file name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/commitdiff/da8023a

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/commitdiff/b47f95d

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://drupal.org/SA-CORE-2012-004

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian6.0affected
debian debian7.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
drupal drupaldrupal7.0
drupal drupaldrupal7.1
drupal drupaldrupal7.2
drupal drupaldrupal7.3
drupal drupaldrupal7.4
drupal drupaldrupal7.5
drupal drupaldrupal7.6
drupal drupaldrupal7.7
drupal drupaldrupal7.8
drupal drupaldrupal7.9
drupal drupaldrupal7.10
drupal drupaldrupal7.11
drupal drupaldrupal7.12
drupal drupaldrupal7.13
drupal drupaldrupal7.14
drupal drupaldrupal7.15
drupal drupaldrupal7.16
drupal drupaldrupal7.17
drupal drupaldrupal7.x-dev
drupal drupaldrupal6.0
drupal drupaldrupal6.1
drupal drupaldrupal6.2
drupal drupaldrupal6.3
drupal drupaldrupal6.4
drupal drupaldrupal6.5
drupal drupaldrupal6.6
drupal drupaldrupal6.7
drupal drupaldrupal6.8
drupal drupaldrupal6.9
drupal drupaldrupal6.10
drupal drupaldrupal6.11
drupal drupaldrupal6.12
drupal drupaldrupal6.13
drupal drupaldrupal6.14
drupal drupaldrupal6.15
drupal drupaldrupal6.16
drupal drupaldrupal6.17
drupal drupaldrupal6.18
drupal drupaldrupal6.19
drupal drupaldrupal6.20
drupal drupaldrupal6.21
drupal drupaldrupal6.22
drupal drupaldrupal6.23
drupal drupaldrupal6.24
drupal drupaldrupal6.25
drupal drupaldrupal6.26

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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