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CVE-2012-2652

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CVE-2012-2652 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Qemu 1.0, specifically within the bdrv_open function when operating in snapshot mode. An attacker can exploit a flaw in the handling of mkstemp function failures, allowing for a symlink attack on a temporary file to overwrite or read arbitrary files. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4, indicating a medium severity with local access, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 1,595 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: kvm
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: qemu-kvm
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Update Support 6.3Fixed in: qemu-kvm

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-2652Moderate

qemu: vulnerable to temporary file symlink attacks

May 28, 2012

References

git.kernel.org
git.qemu.org
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00024.html
secunia.com / advisories/50132
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/50689
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2545
securityfocus.com / bid/53725
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1522-1