CVE-2016-2242 (GCVE-0-2016-2242)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:24
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Exponent CMS 2.x before 2.3.7 Patch 3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the sc parameter to install/index.php.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.exponentcms.org/news/show/title/securi… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.exponentcms.org/news/patch-3-released-… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537499/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135721/Expon… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23290 | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2016-01-14 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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