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CVE-2011-0460

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0460 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the kbd init script, affecting kbd and openSUSE distributions. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on the /dev/shm/defkeymap.map file. With a CVSS score of 6.3, this vulnerability has medium attack complexity and high impact on integrity and availability, but requires local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.14.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kbd-project:kbd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kbd-project:kbd:0.99:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kbd-project:kbd:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kbd-project:kbd:1.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kbd-project:kbd:1.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
9.2
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-0460Moderate

kbd: /etc/init.d/kbd dumps state to /dev/shm/defkeymap.map on shutdown

Apr 18, 2011

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2011-04/msg00053.html
bugzilla.novell.com / show_bug.cgi