CVE-2012-4245

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The scriptfu network server in GIMP 2.6 does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the python-fu-eval command.

Affected products

GIMP: from 2.6.0 through 2.6.13

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-08/0106.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/17/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/1
http://www.reactionpenetrationtesting.co.uk/GIMP-scriptfu-python-command-execution.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55089
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-01
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-08/0106.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/16/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/17/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/1

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