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CVE-2012-5530

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
29/11/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The (1) pcmd and (2) pmlogger init scripts in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 3.6.10 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/##### temporary file.

Impact

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

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0
2.10
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.6.9 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:3.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:3.6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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