Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2533

Title: Freedesktop Dbus

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-2533.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Jun 22, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2533: The configure script in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an unspecified file in /tmp/.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025720 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68173 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025720 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68173

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2533 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 22, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.