CVE-2012-3440

MediumCVSS 5.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak temporary file.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.6/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 8, 2012
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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