CVE-2012-2244

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the path to clamav. NOTE: this can be exploited without authentication by leveraging CVE-2012-2243.

Affected products

mahara: 1.4-rc1, 1.4-rc2, 1.4-rc3, 1.4-rc4, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 (+8)

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1057238
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4936
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1057238
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4936

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