PT-2012-5816 · Atutor · Atutor Acontent

Published 2012-10-22 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-5168

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ATutor AContent versions prior to 1.2-1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary user passwords or category names. This can be achieved by sending a direct request to specific API endpoints, such as "user/index inline editor submit.php" or "course category/index inline editor submit.php".

Recommendations For ATutor AContent versions prior to 1.2-1, update to version 1.2-1 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "user/index inline editor submit.php" and "course category/index inline editor submit.php" endpoints until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5168

Affected Products

Atutor Acontent

References · 11

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/56100 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0095.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23117 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5168 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51014 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51034 · Vendor Advisory
• http://update.atutor.ca/acontent/patch/1_2 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79461 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79462 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/86428 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5168 · Note