PT-2018-11347 · Joomla · Joomla!

Davide Tampellini · Published 2018-06-26 · Updated 2018-08-20 · CVE-2018-12712

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions 2.5.0 through 3.8.8

Description An issue was discovered where the autoload code checks classnames to be valid using the class exists function in PHP. In PHP 5.3, this function validates invalid names as valid, which can result in a Local File Inclusion.

Recommendations For Joomla! versions 2.5.0 through 3.8.8, update to version 3.8.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-12712

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12712 · Vendor Advisory
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/741-20180601-core-local-file-inclusion-with-php-5-3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12712 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1041245 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/104566 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-12712 · Note