CVE-2012-2670

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

manageuser.php in Collabtive before 0.7.6 allows remote authenticated users, and possibly unauthenticated attackers, to bypass intended access restrictions and upload and execute arbitrary files by uploading an avatar file with an accepted Content-Type such as image/jpeg, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in files/standard/avatar.

Affected products

O-Dyn Collabtive: through 0.7.5; 0.6.4, 0.6.5, 0.7

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-06/0007.html
http://www.collabtive.o-dyn.de/blog/?p=426
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/06/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/06/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/522973/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53813
http://xync.org/2012/06/04/Arbitrary-File-Upload-in-Collabtive.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76101
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-06/0007.html
http://www.collabtive.o-dyn.de/blog/?p=426
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/06/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/06/06/9

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