CVE-2012-1093

EPSS 0.6%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

21 Feb 2020Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

The init script in the Debian x11-common package before 1:7.6+12 is vulnerable to a symlink attack that can lead to a privilege escalation during package installation.

Affected products

Debian · x11-common

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1093 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1093 http://vladz.devzero.fr/012_x11-common-vuln.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/29/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/01/1