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CVE-2012-5644

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% 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-200

Description

libuser has information disclosure when moving user's home directory

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 18
• Libuser Project Libuser: before 0.59 — fixed in 0.59
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0, 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Libuser Project Libuser 0.59. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102068.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5644
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5644
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5644
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102068.html
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-5644
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5644
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5644

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