CVE-2012-5659

Published Mar 12, 2013

Last updated 12 years ago

Overview

Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.7
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
1.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
Impact
-
Solution
-

Configurations