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CVE-2011-0523
gypsy 0.8 does not properly restrict the files that can be read while running with root privileges, which allows local users to read…
Low1.9EPSS 0.48%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
gypsy 0.8 does not properly restrict the files that can be read while running with root privileges, which allows local users to read otherwise restricted files via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 59% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- [oss-security] 20110125 Re: CVE request: multiple gypsy vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8659 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0884 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33431 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8687 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2013-8705 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110124 CVE request: multiple gypsy vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 49991 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gypsy/+bug/690323 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gypsy/commit/?id=40101707cddb319481133b2a137294b6b669bd16 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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