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CVE-2012-5628

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.0)
• 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: 2018-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-275

Description

gofer before 0.68 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by removing journal entries.

Affected products

• Gofer Project Gofer: 0.68

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884854
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884854

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