CVE-2012-5660

medium

Published 2013-03-12 · 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

6.9

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."

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
redhat	automatic_bug_reporting_tool	`{"endIncluding":"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`

References

CWEs

CWE-264 CWE-362

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