CVE-2012-1088 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in iproute2 versions prior to 3.3.0. An attacker could exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files created by the 'configure' script or 'examples/dhcp-client-script', leading to arbitrary file overwrites. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a local attack vector with medium complexity and potential for partial integrity and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:iproute2_project:iproute2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:iproute2_project:iproute2:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:iproute2_project:iproute2:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
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