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CVE-2011-4339

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-4339 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the ipmievd daemon within OpenIPMI, specifically affecting ipmitool package 1.8.11 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Debian, and Fedora 16. The daemon incorrectly sets 0666 permissions on its PID file, allowing any local user to write to it and terminate arbitrary processes. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.6, indicating low attack complexity and impact limited to process termination, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.8.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipmitool_project:ipmitool:1.8.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0043 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: OpenIPMI-0:2.0.16-16.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ipmitool-0:1.8.11-12.el6_2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-4339Moderate

OpenIPMI: IPMI event daemon creates PID file with world writeable permissions

Dec 13, 2011

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071575.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-January/071580.html
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/12/13/1
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0123.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
secunia.com / advisories/47173
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/47228
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/47376
Broken Link
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/71763
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2376
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1814.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/51036
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
xerox.com / download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
Third Party Advisory