CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0786
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The transform_save function in transform.c in Augeas before 1.0.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on a .augnew file.
Affected configurations
• augeas augeas (<= 0.10.0)
• augeas augeas 0.0.1
• augeas augeas 0.0.2
• augeas augeas 0.0.3
• augeas augeas 0.0.4
• augeas augeas 0.0.5
• augeas augeas 0.0.6
• augeas augeas 0.0.7
• augeas augeas 0.0.8
• augeas augeas 0.1.0
• augeas augeas 0.1.1
• augeas augeas 0.2.0
• augeas augeas 0.2.1
• augeas augeas 0.2.2
• augeas augeas 0.3.0
• augeas augeas 0.3.1
• augeas augeas 0.3.2
• augeas augeas 0.3.3
• augeas augeas 0.3.4
• augeas augeas 0.3.5
• augeas augeas 0.3.6
• augeas augeas 0.4.0
• augeas augeas 0.4.1
• augeas augeas 0.4.2
• augeas augeas 0.5.0
• augeas augeas 0.5.1
• augeas augeas 0.5.2
• augeas augeas 0.5.3
• augeas augeas 0.6.0
• augeas augeas 0.7.0
• augeas augeas 0.7.1
• augeas augeas 0.7.2
• augeas augeas 0.7.3
• augeas augeas 0.7.4
• augeas augeas 0.8.0
• augeas augeas 0.8.1
• augeas augeas 0.9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://augeas.net/news.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1537.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55811 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772257 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/16387744 github.com
- http://augeas.net/news.html Vendor Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1537.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55811 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772257 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/16387744 github.com