CVE-2013-4212

Summary

CVECVE-2013-4212
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-12-07 20:55:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionCertain getText methods in the ActionSupport controller in Apache Roller before 5.0.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OGNL expressions via the first or second parameter, as demonstrated by the pageTitle parameter in the !getPageTitle sub-URL to roller-ui/login.rol, which uses a subclass of UIAction, aka "OGNL Injection."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS: 0.870340000 probability, percentile 0.994450000 (date 2026-04-29)

Problem Types: CWE-94 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Roller 4.0 All All All
Application Apache Roller 4.0.1 All All All
Application Apache Roller 5.0 All All All
Application Apache Roller All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.osvdb.org/100342 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Apache Roller OGNL Injection af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com Exploit
Roller: free and open source Java blog software af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rollerweblogger.org Patch
Coverity Security Research Lab af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.coverity.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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