CVE-2012-2389
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.4%EU EUVD
hostapd 0.7.3, and possibly other versions before 1.0, uses 0644 permissions for /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information such as credentials.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (29th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2377)
- Published
- June 21, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2377 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- w1.fi / hostapd
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081983.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:168
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/13
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/5
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740964
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824660
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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