CVE-2012-5660

medium
Published 2013-03-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/libreport.git/commit/?id=3bbf961b1884dd32654dd39b360dd78ef294b10a

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool{"endIncluding":"2.0.9"}
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.0
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.1
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.2
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.3
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.4
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.4.980
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.4.981
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.5
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.6
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.7
redhatautomatic_bug_reporting_tool2.0.8

References

CWEs

CWE-264 CWE-362

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