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CVE-2012-0420

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2013-12-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable.

Affected products

• openSUSE Zypper: through 1.2.8; 0.11.6, 1.0.2, 1.6.16

References

• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770630
• https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770630
• https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html

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