CVE-2013-3242

Joomla\! vulnerability

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

4.8%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

plugins/system/remember/remember.php in Joomla! 2.5.x before 2.5.10 and 3.0.x before 3.0.4 does not properly handle an object obtained by unserializing a cookie, which allows remote authenticated users to conduct PHP object injection attacks and cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Affected vendor

Joomla

Affected product

Joomla\!

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2013-05-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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