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CVE-2012-5630

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
• 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: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-367

Description

libuser 0.56 and 0.57 has a TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 18
• Libuser Project Libuser: 0.57, 0.58
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0, 6.0

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102068.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5630
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5630
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5630
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59285
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102068.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5630
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5630
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5630
• https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59285

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