CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0948
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py in Update Manager, as used by Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 11.10, and 11.04, uses weak permissions for (1) apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz and (2) system_state.tar.gz, which allows local users to obtain repository credentials.
Affected configurations
• gnome update-manager-core 0.150.5.2
• gnome update-manager-core 0.152.25.10
• gnome update-manager-core 0.156.14.3
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/105380733/update-manager_1%3A0.156.14.3_1%3A0.156.14.4.diff.gz launchpadlibrarian.net
- http://osvdb.org/82019 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49230 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53604 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1443-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75727 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://launchpadlibrarian.net/105380733/update-manager_1%3A0.156.14.3_1%3A0.156.14.4.diff.gz launchpadlibrarian.net
- http://osvdb.org/82019 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49230 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53604 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1443-1 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75727 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com