Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-0427

Title: Opensuse Auth Bypass

Auth Bypass

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-0427.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Dec 02, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-0427: yast2-add-on-creator in SUSE inst-source-utils 2008.11.26 before 2008.11.26-0.9.1 and 2012.9.13 before 2012.9.13-0.8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted (1) file name or (2) directory name.

Impacted Vendors

opensuse 1

suse 1

Reference Links

http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=tGCXHQR48E4~ https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604730 https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0427.html http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=tGCXHQR48E4~ https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604730 https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0427.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-0427 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.

December 02, 2013 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:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.