CVE-2012-6097
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
File descriptor leak in cronie 1.4.8, when running in certain environments, might allow local users to read restricted files, as demonstrated by reading /etc/crontab.
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.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedorahosted | cronie | 1.4.8 | |
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:033
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8652
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786096
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893661
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:033
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8652
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786096
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893661
CWEs
CWE-200
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.