Insecure Temporary File Affecting opencryptoki-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.03% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-OPENCRYPTOKIDEVEL-1332226
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Sept 2012

Introduced: 7 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-4454  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-377  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 opencryptoki-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opencryptoki-devel package and not the opencryptoki-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

openCryptoki before 2.4.1, when using spinlocks, allows local users to create or set world-writable permissions on arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the (1) .pkapi_xpk or (2) .pkcs11spinloc file in /tmp.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1