CVE-2013-1666

Publication date 1 November 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

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

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Status

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

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Package Patch details
perl

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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