VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6607

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Published 2013-11-23 · 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
3.3

Description

The transform_save function in transform.c in Augeas before 1.0.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on a .augsave file in a backup save action, a different vector than CVE-2012-0786.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0.0-1
sid Fixed 1.0.0-1
forky Fixed 1.0.0-1
bullseye Fixed 1.0.0-1
bookworm Fixed 1.0.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
augeasaugeas{"endIncluding":"0.10.0"}
augeasaugeas0.0.1
augeasaugeas0.0.2
augeasaugeas0.0.3
augeasaugeas0.0.4
augeasaugeas0.0.5
augeasaugeas0.0.6
augeasaugeas0.0.7
augeasaugeas0.0.8
augeasaugeas0.1.0
augeasaugeas0.1.1
augeasaugeas0.2.0
augeasaugeas0.2.1
augeasaugeas0.2.2
augeasaugeas0.3.0
augeasaugeas0.3.1
augeasaugeas0.3.2
augeasaugeas0.3.3
augeasaugeas0.3.4
augeasaugeas0.3.5
augeasaugeas0.3.6
augeasaugeas0.4.0
augeasaugeas0.4.1
augeasaugeas0.4.2
augeasaugeas0.5.0
augeasaugeas0.5.1
augeasaugeas0.5.2
augeasaugeas0.5.3
augeasaugeas0.6.0
augeasaugeas0.7.0
augeasaugeas0.7.1
augeasaugeas0.7.2
augeasaugeas0.7.3
augeasaugeas0.7.4
augeasaugeas0.8.0
augeasaugeas0.8.1
augeasaugeas0.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.