CVE-2012-2760

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Published 2012-07-25 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.1

Description

mod_auth_openid before 0.7 for Apache uses world-readable permissions for /tmp/mod_auth_openid.db, which allows local users to obtain session ids.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18917 local linux verified

Peter Ellehauge · 2012-05-24

Apache Mod_Auth_OpenID - Session Stealing

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`0.7-0.1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`{"endIncluding":"0.6"}`
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`0.1`
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`0.2`
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`0.2.1`
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`0.3`
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`0.4`
findingscience	mod_auth_openid	`0.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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