# CVE-2012-3199: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Local attackers can exploit a vulnerability in the Gnome Trusted Extension to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability on Solaris systems.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Oct 2012
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-9rvr-m77g-6cj2

## What is CVE-2012-3199?

CVE-2012-3199 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 17 Oct 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Sun Solaris 10 and 11 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Gnome Trusted Extension.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3199?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sun Sunos.

## How do I fix CVE-2012-3199?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-3199 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2012-3199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Sun Sunos

- [CVE-2010-4435](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-4435/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-4619](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-4619/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-2144](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2144/): Other in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2008-1369](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1369/): Misconfiguration in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2001-1583](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2001-1583/): Command injection in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2012-3199 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2012-3199 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sun Sunos, published on 17 Oct 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Sun Sunos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3199/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3199/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-3199
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3199
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3199

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3199/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.