CVE-2012-3440

medium

Description

A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak temporary file.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-3407

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844442

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54868

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N