CVE-2012-5660
Abrt Action Install Debuginfo Limited Path Education
Description
abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes."
INFO
Published Date :
March 12, 2013, 11:55 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 1:45 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
10.0
Exploitability Score :
3.4
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 13, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Description CVE-2012-5660 abrt: Race condition in abrt-action-install-debuginfo abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes." Removed CVSS V2 Red Hat, Inc. (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0215 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5660 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 02, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Description abrt-action-install-debuginfo in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to set world-writable permissions for arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on "the directories used to store information about crashes." CVE-2012-5660 abrt: Race condition in abrt-action-install-debuginfo Added CVSS V2 Red Hat, Inc. (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0215 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5660 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Mar. 19, 2013
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
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associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2012-5660
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
0.04 }} 0.00%
score
0.05635
percentile