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CVE-2012-4487

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-11-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Subuser module before 6.x-1.8 for Drupal does not properly check "switch subuser" permissions, which allows remote authenticated parent users to change their role by switching to a subuser they created.

Affected products

• Boombatower Subuser: through 6.x-1.7; 6.x-1.0, 6.x-1.1, 6.x-1.2, 6.x-1.3, 6.x-1.4, 6.x-1.5 (+2)

References

• http://drupal.org/node/1700550
• http://drupal.org/node/1700584
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/04/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/07/1
• http://drupal.org/node/1700550
• http://drupal.org/node/1700584
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/04/6
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/07/1

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