CVE-2012-6648 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2012-6648?

CVE-2012-6648 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 22 May 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

gdm/guest-session-cleanup.sh in gdm-guest-session 0.24 and earlier, as used in Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT from CVE-2012-0943 per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-0943 is used for the guest-account issue.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-6648?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gdm-Guest-Session Project Gdm-Guest-Session.

How do I fix CVE-2012-6648?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-6648 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2012-6648 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-6648 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-cjj6-j9p7-88r5.