CVE-2012-4453 (GCVE-0-2012-4453)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-09 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1674.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55713 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/4 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git%3… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/6 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2012-09-27 00:00
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- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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