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CVE-2012-5638

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5638 describes a vulnerability in the setup_logging function of SANLock, affecting oVirt SANLock, where the /var/log/sanlock.log file is created with world-writable permissions. This allows local attackers to overwrite log content or bypass disk-quota restrictions. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P), indicating local access and low attack complexity, with potential impact limited to integrity and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ovirt:sanlock:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
25.9%
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 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 (15)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 5 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.7rhs-1.el5
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageFixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.7rhs-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: appliance-0:1.7.1-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: augeas-0:0.9.0-1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: glusterfs-0:3.3.0.7rhs-1.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: gluster-swift-0:1.4.8-5.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: libvirt-0:0.9.10-21.el6_3.8
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: rhn-client-tools-0:1.0.0-73.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: sanlock-0:2.3-4.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: sos-0:2.2-17.2.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: vdsm-0:4.9.6-20.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0 ConsoleFixed in: org.ovirt.engine-root-0:2.0.techpreview1-4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0 ConsoleFixed in: vdsm-0:4.9.6-20.el6rhs
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6Fixed in: sanlock-0:2.3-4.el6_3
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redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: sanlock

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5638Low

sanlock world writable /var/log/sanlock.log

Aug 22, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi