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CVE-2012-1187

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-10-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-273

Description

Bitlbee does not drop extra group privileges correctly in unix.c

Affected products

• Bitlbee: 3.0.4

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1187
• https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/852
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1187
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1187
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-1187
• https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/852
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1187
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1187

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