CVE-2012-0787

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The clone_file function in transfer.c in Augeas before 1.0.0, when copy_if_rename_fails is set and EXDEV or EBUSY is returned by the rename function, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a bind mount on the (1) .augsave or (2) destination file when using the backup save option, or (3) .augnew file when using the newfile save option.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. augeas: through 0.10.0; 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5, 0.0.6 (+30)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0

References

http://augeas.net/news.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1537.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55811
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772261
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/b8de6a8c
http://augeas.net/news.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1537.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55811
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772261
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/b8de6a8c

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