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CVE-2012-2120

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
18/05/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

latex2man in texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322, and possibly other versions or packages, when used with the H or T option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.30 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
3.30
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:debian:texlive-extra-utils:2011.20120322:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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