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CVE-2012-3449

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3449 describes a vulnerability in Open vSwitch versions 1.4.2 and earlier, where world-writable permissions on specific directories allow local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 3.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, resulting in partial impact to integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openvswitch:openvswitch:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.6LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/77417
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/02/6
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/08/03/6
securityfocus.com / bid/54789
securityfocus.com / bid/54794