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CVE-2012-4417
GlusterFS 3.3.0, as used in Red Hat Storage server 2.0, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary…
- 3.6LowCVSS base score
- 0.34%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 73% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
GlusterFS 3.3.0, as used in Red Hat Storage server 2.0, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files with predictable names.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 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 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 73% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- RHSA-2012:1456 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856341 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1027756 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- redhat-storage-glusterfs-symlink(80074) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 56522 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-4353 (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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