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CVE-2012-5535

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

gnome-system-log polkit policy allows arbitrary files on the system to be read

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 17, 18
• Gnome-System-Log: all versions

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094059.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094181.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5535
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5535
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5535
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094059.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-December/094181.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5535
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5535
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5535

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