CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0878
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Paste Script 1.7.5 and earlier does not properly set group memberships during execution with root privileges, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions by leveraging a web application that uses the local filesystem.
Affected configurations
• pythonpaste paste (<= 1.7.5)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://groups.google.com/group/paste-users/browse_thread/thread/2aa651ba331c2471 groups.google.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1206.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48812 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50410 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/1 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pastescript/changeset/a19e462769b4 Patch
- https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pastescript/pull-request/3/fix-group-permissions-for-pastescriptserve Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796790 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://groups.google.com/group/paste-users/browse_thread/thread/2aa651ba331c2471 groups.google.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1206.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48812 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50410 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/1 Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pastescript/changeset/a19e462769b4 Patch
- https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pastescript/pull-request/3/fix-group-permissions-for-pastescriptserve Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796790 bugzilla.redhat.com