CVE-2012-0842
What it is
surf: cookie jar has read access from other local user
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account. High risk of data exposure.
- Exploit odds
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.5 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: none linked yet, which raises it.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-200 · Information exposure
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Suckless Surf < 0.5
- Debian Linux 8.0
- Debian Linux 9.0
- Debian Linux 10.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.5
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
Read https://cve-list.com/agent/cve/CVE-2012-0842.md and follow it. Check whether this project is affected by CVE-2012-0842. Read only. Don't change anything and don't upload my code. Tell me yes, no or not sure, with the file as proof.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/11/3
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0842
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0842
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0842
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/8
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/10/9
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/11/3
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0842
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0842
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0842