Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-3500

Title: Fedora Rpmdevtools Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-3500.

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date Oct 01, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-3500: scripts/annotate-output.sh in devscripts before 2.12.2, as used in rpmdevtools before 8.3, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary (1) standard output or (2) standard error output file.

Impacted Vendors

devscripts_devel_team 1

fedora 1

debian 1

Reference Links

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d23a5e6c90f7a37b0972b30f5d31dce97a93eb0 http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/commit/?id=90b4400c2ab2e80cecfd8dfdf031536376ed2cdb http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086138.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086159.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087335.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50600 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2549 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:123 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55358 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1593-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848022 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78230 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0316 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d23a5e6c90f7a37b0972b30f5d31dce97a93eb0 http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/rpmdevtools.git/commit/?id=90b4400c2ab2e80cecfd8dfdf031536376ed2cdb http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086138.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086159.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087335.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50600 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2549 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:123 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/31/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55358 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1593-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848022 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78230 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0316

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-3500 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.

October 01, 2012 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:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.