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CVE-2012-4453

Date: October 9, 2012

dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

Severity Score

Related Resources (13)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/6
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4453
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79258
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/4
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4453
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4453
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55713
http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e1b48995c26c4f06d1a71
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/3
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-4453
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1674.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4453

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Default Permissions

CWE-276

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): NONE
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