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CVE-2012-3292

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
07/06/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The GridFTP in Globus Toolkit (GT) before 5.2.2, when certain autoconf macros are defined, does not properly check the return value from the getpwnam_r function, which might allow remote attackers to gain privileges by logging in with a user that does not exist, which causes GridFTP to run as the last user in the password file.

Impact

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

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0
7.60
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.2.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:globus:globus_toolkit:4.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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