CVE-2012-4454

Severity: low (CVSS 2.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

openCryptoki before 2.4.1, when using spinlocks, allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) .pkapi_xpk or (2) .pkcs11spinloc file in /tmp.

Affected products

opencryptoki: through 2.4; 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.4.1, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7 (+5)

References

http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=58345488c9351d9be9a4be27c8b407c2706a33a9
http://opencryptoki.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=opencryptoki/opencryptoki%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b7fcb3eb0319183348f1f4fb90ede4edd6487c30
http://secunia.com/advisories/50702
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28878345
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/07/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/09/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/20/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/27/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55627
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730636

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