PT-2013-1513 · Red Hat+2 · Augeas+3

Vincent Danen · Published 2013-11-20 · Updated 2014-08-13 · CVE-2012-0786

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

3.3

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Augeas versions prior to 1.0.0

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on a .augnew file. This is due to a problem in the transform save function in transform.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.0, update to version 1.0.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CESA-2013_1537

CVE-2012-0786

DLA-28-1

MGASA-2014-0058

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10367-1

RHSA-2013:1537

RHSA-2013_1537

SUSE-SU-2014_1017-1

Affected Products

Augeas

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

References · 18

• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-1537.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0058.html · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55811 · Vendor Advisory
• http://augeas.net/news.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0058 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0786 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1537.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-0786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-0786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-0786 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0786 · Security Note
• https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/16387744 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772257 · Note