PT-2012-5979 · Atutor · Atutor Acontent

Published 2012-10-22 · Updated 2013-04-11 · CVE-2012-5454

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue is related to improper access restriction in the user/index inline editor submit.php file, allowing remote authenticated users to modify arbitrary user passwords via a crafted request. This might be due to an incomplete fix for a previous issue.

Recommendations For ATutor AContent versions 1.2-1, restrict access to the user/index inline editor submit.php file to prevent unauthorized password modifications. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the password modification functionality until a proper fix is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5454

Affected Products

Atutor Acontent

References · 6

• 🔥 https://htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23117 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5454 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51034 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/86428 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5454 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/56237 · Note