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CVE-2012-4453

medium

Description

dracut.sh in dracut, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora 16 and 17, and possibly other products, creates initramfs images with world-readable permissions, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79258

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859448

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55713

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/3

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1674.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e1b48995c26c4f06d1a71

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-09

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00038