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CVE-2012-0842

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2019-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

surf: cookie jar has read access from other local user

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Suckless Surf: before 0.5 — fixed in 0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Suckless Surf 0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/9
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/11/3
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0842
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0842
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0842
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/8
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/9
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/11/3
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0842

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