CVE-2012-4487

MEDIUM 4.0CVE-2012-4487 · Published 02/11/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-4487 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.0) vulnerability affecting subuser (boombatower).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 65.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
subuser boombatower	`= 6.x-1.0= 6.x-1.1= 6.x-1.2= 6.x-1.3= 6.x-1.4= 6.x-1.5= 6.x-1.6= 6.x-1.x≤ 6.x-1.7`	No fix yet

Description

The Subuser module before 6.x-1.8 for Drupal does not properly check "switch subuser" permissions, which allows remote authenticated parent users to change their role by switching to a subuser they created.

References

drupal.org/node/1700550 · Patch
drupal.org/node/1700584 · Patch
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/04/6
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/07/1

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