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CVE-2012-5659

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
• 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: yes
• Published: 2013-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.

Affected products

• RedHat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool: through 2.0.9; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.4.980 (+5)

References

• http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011
• http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011

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