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CVE-2012-4454

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
10/10/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

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

Base Score: 2.90 LOW
Vector: AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
2.90
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:opencryptoki_project:opencryptoki:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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