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CVE-2012-5557

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
03/12/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The User Read-Only module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.4 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4 for Drupal, does not properly assign roles when there are more than three roles on the site and certain unspecified configurations, which might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges by performing certain operations, as demonstrated by changing a password.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.60 LOW
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
3.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:6.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:6.x-1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:6.x-1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:6.x-1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:6.x-1.x:dev:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:7.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:7.x-1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:7.x-1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:7.x-1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:user_read-only_project:user_readonly:7.x-1.x:dev:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:drupal:drupal:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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