CVE-2011-0468

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-04-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The aaa_base package before 11.3-8.9.1 in SUSE openSUSE 11.3, and before 11.4-54.62.1 in openSUSE 11.4, allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a filename, related to tab expansion.

Affected products

Opensuse: 11.3, 11.4

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43825
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0468.html
http://www.osvdb.org/71253
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46983
https://bugzilla.novell.com/678827
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66245
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-03/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43825
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-0468.html

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