| Name | CVE-2012-4245 |
| Description | The scriptfu network server in GIMP 2.6 does not require authentication, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the python-fu-eval command. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| gimp (PTS) | stretch (security), stretch | 2.8.18-1+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2.10.8-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye, sid | 2.10.22-4 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| gimp | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
The interface isn't designed or advertised to be secure, this is hardly a security issue in practice