CVE-2012-1588 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-1588?

CVE-2012-1588 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Drupal Drupal, published on 1 Oct 2012. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the _filter_url function in the text filtering system (modules/filter/filter.module) in Drupal 7.x before 7.14 allows remote authenticated users with certain roles to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long email address.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1588?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Drupal Drupal.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1588?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1588 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-1588 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1588 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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Also known as GHSA-pgxv-w4j7-wh5m.