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CVE-2012-5660

Date: March 12, 2013

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."

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5660
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5660
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-5660

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Race Conditions

CWE-362

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2

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