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CVE-2012-0420
zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or…
Medium4.4EPSS 0.34%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium4.4 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 73% 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: Medium 4.4.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (2)
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770630 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2012-0420)Record last updated .