CVE-2011-3712

Exp

CakePHP 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by dispatcher.php and certain other files.

Published: 2011-09-23 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2011-3712 is rated High Exploit Risk (60.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.58%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2011-3712

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2011-3712

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-07-06 1.37% 1.58% +0.21%
2 2026-06-15 0.46% 1.37% +0.92%
3 2026-02-23 — 0.46% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2011-3712

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2011-3712

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2011-3712

GHSA-r7p6-fr3x-r877 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: composer — CakePHP 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file

OS Trackers for CVE-2011-3712

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu low CVE-2011-3712 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (cakephp), 19 status rows across 19 suites (artful, bionic, hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 15, DNE 2, needed 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-3712

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2011-3712

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cakephp cakephp 1.3.7 cpe:2.3:a:cakephp:cakephp:1.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2011-3712

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