CVE-2012-6607 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Augeas versions prior to 1.0.0, specifically within the transform_save function. An attacker can exploit a symlink attack on a .augsave file during a backup save action to overwrite arbitrary files and potentially gain sensitive information. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability has low severity, requiring local access and medium attack complexity, with potential for partial confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:augeas:augeas:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:augeas:augeas:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:augeas:augeas:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:augeas:augeas:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:augeas:augeas:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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