CVE-2012-0420

MEDIUM 4.4CVE-2012-0420 · Published 02/12/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-0420 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.4) vulnerability affecting zypper (opensuse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
zypper opensuse	`= 0.11.6= 1.0.2= 1.6.16≤ 1.2.8`	No fix yet

Description

zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable.

References

bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi
support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html · Vendor Advisory

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