CVE-2012-1187
CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 29, 2019 at 01:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:39 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorBitlbee
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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
Bitlbee does not drop extra group privileges correctly in unix.c
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (4)
x_refsource_MISCBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1187x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1187x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1187CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-273
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