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CVE-2011-3177

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• 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: 2017-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The YaST2 network created files with world readable permissions which could have allowed local users to read sensitive material out of network configuration files, like passwords for wireless networks.

Affected products

• Yast2: all versions

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713661
• https://github.com/yast/yast-core/commit/7fe2e3df308b8b6a901cb2cfd60f398df53219de
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713661
• https://github.com/yast/yast-core/commit/7fe2e3df308b8b6a901cb2cfd60f398df53219de

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