CVE-2012-3449

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

Open vSwitch 1.4.2 uses world writable permissions for (1) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming/ and (2) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/switchca/incoming/, which allows local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files.

Open vSwitch 1.4.2 uses world writable permissions for (1) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming/ and (2) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/switchca/incoming/, which allows local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-07 20:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:31:00

Affected Software

Open vSwitch 1.4.2

1.4.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683665

[oss-security] 20120802 openvswitch world writable directories (CVE-2012-3449)

[oss-security] 20120803 Re: openvswitch world writable directories (CVE-2012-3449)

54789

54794

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845350

openvswitch-privilege-escalation(77417)

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