CVE-2012-4245

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 (attack range: remote)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
gimp (PTS)	jessie (security), jessie	2.8.14-1+deb8u2	vulnerable
	stretch (security), stretch	2.8.18-1+deb9u1	vulnerable
	buster, sid	2.10.8-2	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

The interface isn't designed or advertised to be secure, this is hardly a security issue in practice