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CVE-2012-3386

Date: August 7, 2012

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Severity Score

Related Resources (13)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3386
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3386
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-3386

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

Race Conditions

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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