CVE-2011-4355

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

05/03/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

GNU Project Debugger (GDB) before 7.5, when .debug_gdb_scripts is defined, automatically loads certain files from the current working directory, which allows local users to gain privileges via crafted files such as Python scripts.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.90

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb::::::::		7.4.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:4.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.0.92:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.0.93:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.2.1:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb::::::::		7.4.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:4.18:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.0.92:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.0.93:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.2.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:5.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.1.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:gdb:6.2.1:::::::*

CVE-2011-4355

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools