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CVE-2012-4417

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4417 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in GlusterFS 3.3.0, specifically impacting Red Hat Storage server 2.0. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on predictably named temporary files. With a CVSS score of 3.6, this vulnerability has low attack complexity and requires local access, potentially leading to partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gluster:glusterfs:3.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.1%
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 19th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 5 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.5rhs-37.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.5rhs-37.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.5rhs-37.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: sos-0:2.2-17.1.el6rhs
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4417Low

GlusterFS: insecure temporary file creation

Nov 12, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1456.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/80074
securityfocus.com / bid/56522
securitytracker.com / id