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CVE-2012-0787

N/A

Published: November 23, 2013 at 06:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:38 PM UTC

2 products affected across 2 vendorsEnterprise LinuxAugeas

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.4%

Description

The clone_file function in transfer.c in Augeas before 1.0.0, when copy_if_rename_fails is set and EXDEV or EBUSY is returned by the rename function, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a bind mount on the (1) .augsave or (2) destination file when using the backup save option, or (3) .augnew file when using the newfile save option.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Augeas · Augeas

95%

v ≤ 0.10.00.0.1 0.0.2 0.0.3 0.0.4 0.0.5 0.0.6 0.0.7 0.0.8 0.1.0 0.1.1 0.2.0 0.2.1 0.2.2 0.3.0 0.3.1 0.3.2 0.3.3 0.3.4 0.3.5 0.3.6 0.4.0 0.4.1 0.4.2 0.5.0 0.5.1 0.5.2 0.5.3 0.6.0 0.7.0 0.7.1 0.7.2 0.7.3 0.7.4 0.8.0 0.8.1 0.9.0

Enterprise Linux · Red Hatrpm

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (5)

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://augeas.net/news.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT

Source: [email protected]

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1537.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/55811

x_refsource_CONFIRMExploit

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772261

x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/b8de6a8c

CVSS

3.7LOW[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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