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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2012-5630

medium Nessus Plugin ID 217745

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - libuser 0.56 and 0.57 has a TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees. (CVE-2012-5630)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5630

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5630

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 217745

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2012_5630.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 5/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-5630

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.04, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libuser, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libuser-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libuser-python, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libuser

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5630