CVE-2012-0956

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu before 58.2, during installation, allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML and read arbitrary files via a crafted attribute in the <a> tag of a Twitter feed.

Affected products

Ubiquity Slideshow Team Ubiquity-Slideshow-Ubuntu: through 58.1; 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 (+2)

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1561-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/%2Bbug/991982
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1561-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/%2Bbug/991982

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