CVE-2012-6112

Description

classes/GoogleSpell.php in the PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) addon before 2.0.6.1 for TinyMCE, as used in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 and other products, does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=MDL-37283
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/21/1
• http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
• http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036
• https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce_spellchecker_php/commit/22910187bfb9edae90c26e10100d8145b505b974
• https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220157
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6112
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/6fac8f7f04c9fe7f8bbb54a9c00ec5f9ea4f09e0
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/9803d8fc3ce08c8f8b88ad3a95d9a7c97678a3e3
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/a3243760c243ddad76e91840134009c3681cb16a
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle/commit/f938b1a89b8f381129120a37915d1b345333b3fb
• https://github.com/moodle/moodle
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121015010345/http://www.tinymce.com/develop/changelog/?type=phpspell
• https://web.archive.org/web/20121129021911/http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30036
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6112

CWEs

CWE-264