CVE-2012-3386

high

Description

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.

References

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-3358

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-07

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00125