CVE-2012-5556

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the RESTful Web Services (RESTWS) module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.1 and 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.0-alpha3 for Drupal allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users via unknown vectors.

Published: 2012-12-03 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5556 is rated Low Risk (38.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.15%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5556

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 2025-03-30 0.12% 0.15% +0.03%
2 2025-03-29 0.16% 0.12% -0.04%
3 2024-09-17 0.16%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5556

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-5556

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5556

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-1.0 cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-1.0 cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-1.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-1.0 cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-1.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-1.x cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-1.x:dev:*:*:*:*:*:*
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-2.0 cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-2.0:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-2.0 cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-2.0:alpha2:*:*:*:*:*:*
restful_web_services_project restful_web_services 7.x-2.x cpe:2.3:a:restful_web_services_project:restful_web_services:7.x-2.x:dev:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5556

cvelogic Threat Intelligence