CVE-2012-1088

low
Published 2014-02-15 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
3.3
VIR risk
3.3

Description

iproute2 before 3.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file used by (1) configure or (2) examples/dhcp-client-script.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
iproute2_projectiproute2{"endIncluding":"3.2.0"}
iproute2_projectiproute23.0.0
iproute2_projectiproute23.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-59

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