CVE-2012-5530 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) versions prior to 3.6.10. Specifically, the pcmd and pmlogger init scripts are susceptible to a symlink attack on temporary files in /var/tmp/, allowing a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and low attack complexity, with the primary impact being data integrity. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.6.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sgi:performance_co-pilot:2.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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