CVE-2012-6648

no score yetEPSS 0.4%

gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier, as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-264
Published: 2014-05-22
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

canonical:ubuntu_linux
gdm-guest-session_project:gdm-guest-session

References

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/96474113/gdm-guest-session.secure-cleanup.debdiff
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1399-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lightdm/%2Bbug/953044

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