CVE-2012-5660

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-5660
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-03-12 23:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionabrt-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."

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | CWE-362 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.0 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.1 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.2 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.3 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.4 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.4.980 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.4.981 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.5 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.6 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.7 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool 2.0.8 All All All
Application Redhat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement - Fedora Project Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.fedorahosted.org Exploit, Patch
887866 – (CVE-2012-5660) CVE-2012-5660 abrt: Race condition in abrt-action-install-debuginfo af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE-2012-5660 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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