{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3440 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2012-3440 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 8 Aug 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2012-3440 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2012-3440 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 8 Aug 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3440 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Redhat Enterprise Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3440/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3440/index.md)","id":"CVE-2012-3440","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3440/index.md","name":"CVE-2012-3440","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-f2xg-m95q-882q","RHSA-2012:1149"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Red Hat sudo script","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file in a Red Hat sudo script.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"enterprise_linux","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"sudo","vendor":"todd_miller"}],"cvss":{"score":5.6,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-59","name":"Improper Link Resolution Before File Access"}],"description":"A certain Red Hat script for sudo 1.7.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /var/tmp/nsswitch.conf.bak temporary file.","ecosystems":["Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-3440","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"redhat:enterprise_linux","products":["redhat:enterprise_linux"],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2012"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-3441"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","fixed":["0:1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sudo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/sudo","source":"RHSA-2012:1149"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client","fixed":["0:1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sudo-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/sudo-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2012:1149"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server","fixed":["0:1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sudo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/sudo","source":"RHSA-2012:1149"},{"ecosystem":"Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server","fixed":["0:1.7.2p1-14.el5_8.2"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"sudo-debuginfo","purl":"pkg:rpm/redhat/sudo-debuginfo","source":"RHSA-2012:1149"}],"prev":{"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-3438"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2012-08-08","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework Expression Language Injection","id":"CVE-2018-14667","kev_date_added":"2023-09-28","published":"2018-11-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Missing fixes for CVE-2021-40438 and CVE-2021-26691 in the versions of httpd, as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5.0, causes a securit","id":"CVE-2021-20325","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-02-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in libwebp","id":"CVE-2018-25011","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Other in libwebp","id":"CVE-2018-25014","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Supply chain in redhat-upgrade-tool","id":"CVE-2014-3585","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-22"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Squid: request/response smuggling in http/1.1 and icap","id":"CVE-2023-46846","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-11-03"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Memory corruption in libwebp","id":"CVE-2018-25009","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-21"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"Red Hat","prefix":"RHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local attackers can overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file in a Red Hat sudo script.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-3440/"}