CVE-2013-1666

Publication date 1 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Foswiki before 1.1.8 contains a code injection vulnerability in the MAKETEXT macro.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
perl	14.10 utopic	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

this CVE is specific to foswiki. The perl Maketext vulnerability itself was assigned CVE-2012-6329.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
perl	Upstream: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/1735f6f53ca19f99c6e9e39496c486af323ba6a8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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