CVE-2012-3537

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Crowbar Ohai plugin (chef/cookbooks/ohai/files/default/plugins/crowbar.rb) in the Deployer Barclamp in Crowbar, possibly 1.4 and earlier, allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands via vectors related to "insecure handling of tmp files" and predictable file names.

Affected products

Dell Crowbar: through 1.4

References

http://osvdb.org/84955
http://secunia.com/advisories/50442
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/27/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/27/7
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55240
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774967
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78041
https://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/barclamp-deployer/commit/5ea8d4ddaa4cb1ce834d36889f0fe7ac0d617bc8
https://github.com/SUSE-Cloud/barclamp-deployer/commit/b6454268a067fc77ff5de82057b5b53b3cc38b87
https://github.com/dellcloudedge/barclamp-deployer/pull/57
http://osvdb.org/84955
http://secunia.com/advisories/50442

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