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CVE-2012-1599

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-12-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Joomla! 1.5.x before 1.5.26 does not properly check permissions, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive "administrative back end information" via unknown vectors. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2012-1611.

Affected products

• Joomla!: 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5 (+21)

References

• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/397-20120306-core-information-disclosure.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/5
• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/397-20120306-core-information-disclosure.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/29/5

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