CVE-2015-1592
Movable Type Pro, Open Source, and Advanced before 5.2.12 and Pro and Advanced 6.0.x before 6.0.7 does not properly use the Perl…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 74.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Movable Type Pro, Open Source, and Advanced before 5.2.12 and Pro and Advanced 6.0.x before 6.0.7 does not properly use the Perl Storable::thaw function, which allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local Perl files and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- SixApart MovableType Storable Perl Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/unix/webapp/sixapart_movabletype_storable_execRank gooddisclosed 11 Feb 2015
Exploit-DB1 entry
- SixApart MovableType < 5.2.12 - Storable Perl Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 41697webapps, linuxpublished 11 Feb 2015Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 74.8% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- DSA-3183 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 1031777 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150212 CVE request: MovableType before 5.2.12 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- movable-type-cve20151592-file-include(100912) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://movabletype.org/news/2015/02/movable_type_607_and_5212_released_to_close_security_vulnera.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 72606 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150212 Re: CVE request: MovableType before 5.2.12 - Movable Type (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-2015-1723 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-1592)Record last updated .