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CVE-2012-0943

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0943 describes a local arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in Light Display Manager (lightdm) versions 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, specifically affecting Ubuntu Linux 11.10, where a space in a temporary file's name could be exploited. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and potential for partial data availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:robert_ancell:lightdm:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:robert_ancell:lightdm:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:robert_ancell:lightdm:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:robert_ancell:lightdm:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:robert_ancell:lightdm:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-36966 · Mar 13, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 86th 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 (1)

ubuntupatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
launchpadlibrarian.net / 96471251/lightdm.secure-cleanup.debdiff
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1399-2
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