CVE-2011-0523
LOW · CVSS 1.9EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
gypsy 0.8 does not properly restrict the files that can be read while running with root privileges, which allows local users to read otherwise restricted files via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 1.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0543)
- Published
- August 13, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0543 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- iain / gypsy
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gypsy/commit/?id=40101707cddb319481133b2a137294b6b669bd16(Exploit, Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106919.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106927.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00034.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49991(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/10
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33431
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gypsy/+bug/690323
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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