CVE-2011-4954

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

cobbler has local privilege escalation via the use of insecure location for PYTHON_EGG_CACHE

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
cobbler	cobbler	2011-09-28

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/12/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4954Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4954Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4954Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 19, 2019
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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