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CVE-2012-5477

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: 2014-05-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The smart proxy in Foreman before 1.1 uses a umask set to 0, which allows local users to modify files created by the daemon via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• foreman: through 1.0

References

• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1929
• http://theforeman.org/security.html
• http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1929
• http://theforeman.org/security.html

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