CVE-2012-5907

medium
Published 2012-11-17 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 json.php in TomatoCart 1.2.0 Alpha 2 and possibly earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the module parameter in a "3" action.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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-37021 webapps php verified
Canberk BOLAT ยท 2012-03-28

TomatoCart 1.2.0 Alpha 2 - 'json.php' Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
tomatocarttomatocart1.2.0

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.