Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 4 public exploits for CVE-2012-6329.
PoCs published by Metasploit, Brian Carlson, juan vazquez, George Clark, juan vazquez, including Metasploit module exploits/unix/webapp/foswiki_maketext.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2012-6329, a command injection vulnerability in TWiki's MAKETEXT variable due to unsanitized input passed to Perl's eval function. It allows remote command execution on TWiki installations with localization enabled.
Description
The _compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation in Perl before 5.17.7 does not properly handle backslashes and fully qualified method names during compilation of bracket notation, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via crafted input to an application that accepts translation strings from users, as demonstrated by the TWiki application before 5.1.3, and the Foswiki application 1.0.x through 1.0.10 and 1.1.x through 1.1.6.
Exploits (4)
This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2012-6329, a command injection vulnerability in TWiki's MAKETEXT variable due to unsanitized input passed to Perl's eval function. It allows remote command execution on TWiki installations with localization enabled.
This Metasploit module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Foswiki's MAKETEXT variable, which passes unsanitized input to Perl's eval function. It allows remote command execution on vulnerable Foswiki installations with localization enabled.
This Metasploit module exploits a command injection vulnerability in Foswiki's MAKETEXT variable, which passes unsanitized input to Perl's eval function. It allows remote command execution on vulnerable Foswiki installations with localization enabled.
This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2012-6329, a command injection vulnerability in TWiki's MAKETEXT variable due to unsanitized input passed to Perl's eval function. It allows remote command execution on vulnerable TWiki installations with localization enabled.