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CVE-2012-3521
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the cssgen contrib module in GeSHi before 1.0.8.11 allow remote attackers to read…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 12% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the cssgen contrib module in GeSHi before 1.0.8.11 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) geshi-path or (2) geshi-lang-path parameter.
Timeline
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By redhat
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistgeshi/geshiGHSA-fw3x-2pr2-5j64 (opens in a new tab)
References
6
- http://sourceforge.net/p/geshi/code/2507/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-5411 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-5472 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685324 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-5440 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120821 Re: CVE Request -- php-geshi / GeSHi (1.0.8.11): Remote directory traversal and information disclosure in the cssgen contrib module (plus possibly XSS, but it needs upstream to confirm) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-3476 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-fw3x-2pr2-5j64 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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