CVE-2012-3386
gnu automake: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 41% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-264, CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- gnu:automake
References
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=784b3e6ccc7c72a1c95c340cbbe8897d6b689d76
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089187.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087538.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/087665.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00038.html