CVE-2012-5635 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting GlusterFS in Red Hat Storage Management Console, Native Client, and Server 2.0. Attackers can exploit this flaw via a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score (2.1) due to its local attack vector and limited impact (partial integrity). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gluster:glusterfs:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage_management_console:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage_native_client:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage_server:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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