{"cve":"CVE-2012-5536","nvd":{"published":"2013-02-22T00:55:00.927","modified":"2026-06-16T23:46:58.023","status":"Modified","description":"A certain Red Hat build of the pam_ssh_agent_auth module on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and Fedora Rawhide calls the glibc error function instead of the error function in the OpenSSH codebase, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or possibly gain privileges via crafted use of an application that relies on this module, as demonstrated by su and sudo.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-20"],"references":["http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/commit/?id=4f4687ce8045418f678c323bb22c837f35d7b9fa","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0519.html","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834618","http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/commit/?id=4f4687ce8045418f678c323bb22c837f35d7b9fa","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0519.html"],"products":["fedora_project:fedora_release_rawhide","redhat:enterprise_linux"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:27:27.940201468+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2012-5536","score":0.00437,"percentile":0.37992,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}