CVE-2011-0468

CVE-2011-0468 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the aaa_base package of SUSE openSUSE 11.3 and 11.4. An attacker can exploit this by injecting shell metacharacters into a filename, leveraging tab expansion to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.9, this vulnerability has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires local access and medium attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.