CVE-2012-4252

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in MySQLDumper 1.24.4 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) remove file access restriction via a deletehtaccess action, (2) drop a database via a kill value in a db action, (3) uninstall the application via a 101 value in the phase parameter to learn/cubemail/install.php, (4) delete config.php via a 2 value in the phase parameter to learn/cubemail/install.php, (5) change a password via a schutz action, or (6) execute arbitrary SQL commands via the sql_statement parameter to learn/cubemail/sql.php.

Published: 2012-08-13 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2012-4252 is rated Exploit Available (55.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.36%). 3 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-2012-4252

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
37131 exploit_db edb 2012-04-27 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-4252

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 2026-04-14 0.31% 0.36% +0.05%
2 2026-03-12 0.23% 0.31% +0.07%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.23% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-4252

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.1 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:H)
Exploitation requires uncommon or highly specific conditions.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 4.9 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-4252

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-4252

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mysqldumper mysqldumper 1.24.4 cpe:2.3:a:mysqldumper:mysqldumper:1.24.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-4252

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