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CVE-2012-5578

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5578 describes an insecure permissions vulnerability in Python keyring, allowing newly created database files to be world-readable. This local attack, with low complexity, could lead to a complete compromise of confidentiality (CVSS 6.2 Medium). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:python:keyring:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
35.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0044 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: keyringFixed in: 0.10

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-8867-vpm3-g98ghigh

Incorrect Default Permissions in keyring

Mar 10, 2020

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/cve-2012-5578
Third Party Advisory
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/python-keyring/+bug/1031465
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2012-5578
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/27/4
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory