classes/GoogleSpell.php in the PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) addon before 2.0.6.1 for TinyMCE, as used in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 and other products, does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - classes/GoogleSpell.php in the PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) addon before 2.0.6.1 for     TinyMCE, as used in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before     2.4.1 and other products, does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to     trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string. (CVE-2012-6112)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - classes/GoogleSpell.php in the PHP Spellchecker (aka Google Spellchecker) addon before 2.0.6.1 for
    TinyMCE, as used in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before
    2.4.1 and other products, does not properly handle control characters, which allows remote attackers to
    trigger arbitrary outbound HTTP requests via a crafted string. (CVE-2012-6112)

backport security fix

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
254292	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-6112	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
432752	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
432752	SCA: security update for moodle/moodle (GHSA-fx5h-3786-h2w6)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
64447	Fedora 18 : tinymce-spellchecker-2.0.5-8.fc18 (2013-1371)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
64446	Fedora 17 : tinymce-spellchecker-2.0.5-8.fc17 (2013-1341)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2012-6112

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

medium

medium