CVE-2012-1093

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CVSS v3.1

7.8

EPSS

0.57%

Published

Feb 21, 2020

Modified

Nov 20, 2024

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

The init script in the Debian x11-common package before 1:7.6+12 is vulnerable to a symlink attack that can lead to a privilege escalation during package installation.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-59

Affected Products (4)

debian · x11-common (up to 1\:7.6\+12)vulnerable

debian · debian_linuxvulnerable

References (12)

http://vladz.devzero.fr/012_x11-common-vuln.html

ExploitThird Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/29/1

ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/01/1

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1093

Broken Link

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1093

Vendor Advisory