CVE-2012-3449 (GCVE-0-2012-3449)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-07 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Open vSwitch 1.4.2 uses world writable permissions for (1) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/controllerca/incoming/ and (2) /var/lib/openvswitch/pki/switchca/incoming/, which allows local users to delete and overwrite arbitrary files.
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