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CVE-2012-6648

Date: May 22, 2014

gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier, as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-6648
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6648
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6648

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

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): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

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