CVE-2012-1642

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

includes/linkchecker.pages.inc in the Link checker module 6.x-2.x before 6.x-2.5 for Drupal does not properly enforce access permissions on broken links, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Yaml-Fuer-Drupal Linkchecker: 6.x-2.0, 6.x-2.1, 6.x-2.2, 6.x-2.3, 6.x-2.4, 6.x-2.x-dev

References

http://drupal.org/node/1440508
http://drupalcode.org/project/linkchecker.git/commit/fef0ddf
http://secunia.com/advisories/48022
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/07/1
http://www.osvdb.org/79315
https://drupal.org/node/1441252
http://drupal.org/node/1440508
http://drupalcode.org/project/linkchecker.git/commit/fef0ddf
http://secunia.com/advisories/48022
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/07/1
http://www.osvdb.org/79315
https://drupal.org/node/1441252

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