CVE-2012-3386
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3358)
- Published
- August 7, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3358 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
- gnu / automake
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76(Exploit, Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html(Patch)
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html(Patch)
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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