CVE-2012-5635

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2013-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The GlusterFS functionality in Red Hat Storage Management Console 2.0, Native Client, and Server 2.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on multiple temporary files created by (1) tests/volume.rc, (2) extras/hook-scripts/S30samba-stop.sh, and possibly other vectors, different vulnerabilities than CVE-2012-4417.

Affected products

Red Hat glusterfs: all versions
RedHat Storage Management Console: 2.0
RedHat Storage Native Client: all versions
RedHat Storage Server: 2.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886364
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886364

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