CVE-2012-4454

LowCVSS 2.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

openCryptoki before 2.4.1, when using spinlocks, allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) .pkapi_xpk or (2) .pkcs11spinloc file in /tmp.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 2.9/10AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Oct 10, 2012
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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