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CVE-2012-5660

Published: Mar 12, 2013Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-264
6.9MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 76.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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."

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:MAu:NC:CI:CA:C
Exploitability
AV:LAccess Vector
Local
AC:MAccess Complexity
Medium
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:CConfidentiality
Complete
I:CIntegrity
Complete
A:CAvailability
Complete
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Weaknesses

CWE-264CWE-362

Affected Products

redhat
commercial·USaka red hat
automatic bug reporting toolOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
The CentOS Project
oss-project·USaka centos
CentOSOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
rhn.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887866
bugzilla.redhat.com
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a
git.fedorahosted.org
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