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CVE-2012-2690

13
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2690 describes a vulnerability in libguestfs versions prior to 1.18.0, specifically within the virt-edit utility. This flaw causes edited files to be saved with world-readable permissions, potentially allowing local guest users to access sensitive information. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access and low attack complexity are required for a partial confidentiality 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
<= 1.17.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs:1.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.16.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs:1.16.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.16.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs:1.16.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.16.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs:1.16.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 58th 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libguestfs-1:1.16.19-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2690Low

libguestfs: virt-edit creates a new file, when it is used leading to loss of file attributes (permissions, owner, SELinux context etc.)

Feb 8, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0774.html
secunia.com / advisories/49431
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/49545
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/76220
redhat.com / archives/libguestfs/2012-May/msg00104.html
securityfocus.com / bid/53932