CVE-2012-5659

critical

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-5542

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html

http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-03-12

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.7

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00065