CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5660

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2013-03-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-03-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264, CWE-362

Description

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."

Affected configurations

• redhat automatic bug reporting tool (<= 2.0.9) • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.0 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.1 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.2 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.3 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.4 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.4.980 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.4.981 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.5 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.6 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.7 • redhat automatic bug reporting tool 2.0.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References