Skip to content

A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 10, 2023

Package

No package listed— Suggest a package

Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak temporary file.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 8, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Feb 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-3440

GHSA ID

GHSA-f2xg-m95q-882q

Source code

No known source code

Dependabot alerts are not supported on this advisory because it does not have a package from a supported ecosystem with an affected and fixed version.

Learn more about GitHub language support

Loading Checking history
See something to contribute? Suggest improvements for this vulnerability.