CVE-2012-1615 Privilege escalation in sectool

What is CVE-2012-1615?

CVE-2012-1615 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 6 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exits in Fedoraproject Sectool due to an incorrect DBus file.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1615?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Fedoraproject Sectool.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1615?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1615 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-1615 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1615 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-59cf-6rmm-8r4p.