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CVE-2012-6330

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 35.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The localization functionality in TWiki before 5.1.3, and Foswiki 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large integer in a %MAKETEXT% macro.

Affected products

• Foswiki: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.10 (+7)
• Twiki: through 5.1.2; 5.1.0, 5.1.1

References

• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30219695
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2012-6329
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56950
• http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=30219695
• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/SecurityAlert-CVE-2012-6329
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56950

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