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CVE-2011-1658

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1658 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc) version 2.13 and earlier. It allows local users to potentially gain privileges by manipulating the $ORIGIN dynamic string token within the RPATH of setuid/setgid programs, combined with a crafted LD_PRELOAD environment variable. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.7, indicating a local attack vector with high attack complexity and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.13CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:1.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.7LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 28th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: glibc-0:2.5-58.el5_6.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: glibc-0:2.12-1.7.el6_0.5
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: glibc

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-1658Low

glibc: ld.so insecure handling of privileged programs' RPATHs with $ORIGIN

Jan 12, 2011

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/46397
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/66820
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Patch
securityfocus.com / archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html