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CVE-2011-0523

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0523 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in gypsy 0.8, allowing local users to read restricted files when the application runs with root privileges. The CVSS score of 1.9 indicates low severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting it is not a widely targeted or discussed vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:iain:gypsy:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0048 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: gypsy

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-0523Moderate

gypsy: multiple vulnerabilities

Jan 12, 2011

References

cgit.freedesktop.org / gypsy/commit
ExploitPatch
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106919.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106927.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107020.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-07/msg00034.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/gypsy/+bug/690323
secunia.com / advisories/49991
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/01/24/10
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/10