CVE-2012-3386

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-08-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

GNU Automake: through 1.11.5; 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4-p1, 1.4-p2 (+43)

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0526.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:103
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00021.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00022.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-07/msg00023.html
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html

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