CVE-2012-4462
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
aviary/jobcontrol.py in Condor, as used in Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.3, when removing a job, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (condor_schedd restart) via square brackets in the cproc option.
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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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| condor_project | condor | 7.8.0 | |
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0564.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0565.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860850
- https://htcondor-git.cs.wisc.edu/?p=condor.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=8f9b304c4f6c0a98dafa61b2c0e4beb3b70e4c84
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4462
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.