CVE-2012-0786

CVE-2012-0786 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Augeas versions prior to 1.0.0. It allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files and potentially disclose sensitive information through a symlink attack on temporary .augnew files created by the transform_save function. With a CVSS score of 3.3 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N), this vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity, leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.