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CVE-2012-1088

15
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 56th 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 (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: iproute
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: iproute
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: iproute

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1088Low

iproute: multiple insecure temporary file use issues

Feb 15, 2012

References

git.kernel.org
git.kernel.org
marc.info
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi