CVE-2012-2670

manageuser.php in Collabtive before 0.7.6 allows remote authenticated users, and possibly unauthenticated attackers, to bypass intended access restrictions and upload and execute arbitrary files by uploading an avatar file with an accepted Content-Type such as image/jpeg, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in files/standard/avatar.

Published: 2012-06-17 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-2670 is rated Moderate Risk (43.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.27%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-2670

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 2025-12-21 0.69% 0.27% -0.41%
2 2025-03-17 0.56% 0.69% +0.13%
3 2023-03-07 0.56%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-2670

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P 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:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-2670

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-2670

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2012-2670 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (collabtive), 16 status rows across 16 suites (hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, DNE 5, ignored 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-2670

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-2670

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
o-dyn collabtive <= 0.7.5 cpe:2.3:a:o-dyn:collabtive:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
o-dyn collabtive 0.6.4 cpe:2.3:a:o-dyn:collabtive:0.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
o-dyn collabtive 0.6.5 cpe:2.3:a:o-dyn:collabtive:0.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
o-dyn collabtive 0.7 cpe:2.3:a:o-dyn:collabtive:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-2670

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