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CVE-2012-3521

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3521 describes multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the cssgen contrib module of GeSHi versions prior to 1.0.8.11. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit these flaws by manipulating the 'geshi-path' or 'geshi-lang-path' parameters to read arbitrary files on the affected system. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, though it only impacts confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.8.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qbnz:geshi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qbnz:geshi:1.0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qbnz:geshi:1.0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.8.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qbnz:geshi:1.0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.8.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qbnz:geshi:1.0.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0317 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: geshi/geshiFixed in: 1.0.8.11

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-fw3x-2pr2-5j64high

GeSHi vulnerable to Directory Traversal

May 17, 2022

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105247.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105273.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105317.html
bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
sourceforge.net / p/geshi/code/2507
ExploitPatch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/21/11