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CVE-2011-2533

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: 2011-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file in /tmp/.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Dbus: 1.2.1, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.6, 1.2.8, 1.2.10 (+8)

References

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025720
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68173
• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025720
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68173

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