CVE-2012-5644

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 25, 2019 at 02:28 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:47 PM UTC
5 products affected across 5 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraEnterprise Linux

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

libuser has information disclosure when moving user's home directory

Affected

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

All versions
Vendor states this is fixed in 1 (unaffected)

Remediation

No guide yet

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

References (4)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102068.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5644
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5644

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-200

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