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CVE-2012-4480

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-12-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

mom creates world-writable pid files in /var/run

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 17, 18
• oVirt Mom: before 0.3.0-1 — fixed in 0.3.0-1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: oVirt Mom 0.3.0-1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089658.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090188.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4480
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4480
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79190
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089658.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090188.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4480
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4480
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79190

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