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CVE-2012-5635

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
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
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 10th 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 (14)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0 ConsoleFixed in: vdsm-0:4.9.6-20.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 5 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.7rhs-1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.7rhs-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: appliance-0:1.7.1-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: augeas-0:0.9.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.7rhs-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: gluster-swift-0:1.4.8-5.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.9.10-21.el6_3.8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: rhn-client-tools-0:1.0.0-73.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: sanlock-0:2.3-4.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: sos-0:2.2-17.2.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.9.6-20.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0 ConsoleFixed in: org.ovirt.engine-root-0:2.0.techpreview1-4
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5635Low

GlusterFS: insecure temporary file creation

Mar 28, 2013

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory