National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4437
Original release date:10/01/2012
Last revised:10/01/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the SmartyException class in Smarty (aka smarty-php) before 3.1.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors that trigger a Smarty exception.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/detail?r=4658
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 55506
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120919 Re: CVE Request Smarty / php-Smarty: XSS in Smarty exception messages
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120919 CVE Request Smarty / php-Smarty: XSS in Smarty exception messages
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 50589
Type: Advisory
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-14578
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/smarty-php/source/browse/trunk/distribution/change_log.txt
Technical Details
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)