CVE-2012-3500

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 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: 2012-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

scripts/annotate-output.sh in devscripts before 2.12.2, as used in rpmdevtools before 8.3, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary (1) standard output or (2) standard error output file.

Affected products

Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts: through 2.12.1; 2.12.0

References

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d23a5e6c90f7a37b0972b30f5d31dce97a93eb0
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/commit/?id=90b4400c2ab2e80cecfd8dfdf031536376ed2cdb
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086138.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086159.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087335.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50600
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2549
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:123
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55358
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1593-1

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