{"id":"CVE-2012-4480","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-4480","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:49:03.743Z","title":"mom creates world-writable pid files in /var/run","description":"mom creates world-writable pid files in /var/run","published":"2019-12-02T18:15:10.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:45:11.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["ovirt/mom","fedoraproject/fedora"],"epss":{"score":0.00353,"percentile":0.2877,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.35%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089658.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090188.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4480","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4480","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79190","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089658.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/090188.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-4480","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4480","tags":["Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79190","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4480","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}