CVE-2012-5659

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2013-01-30
Bugzilla:
854011: CVE-2012-5659 abrt: Arbitrary Python code execution due improper sanitization of the PYTHONPATH environment variable by installing debuginfo packages into cache

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-5659 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 3.7
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (abrt) RHSA-2013:0215 2013-01-31

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Miloslav Trmač of Red Hat.

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