{"id":"CVE-2012-5659","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-5659","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:48:56.719Z","title":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment…","description":"Untrusted search path vulnerability in plugins/abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache.c in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) 2.0.9 and earlier allows local users to load and execute arbitrary Python modules by modifying the PYTHONPATH environment variable to reference a malicious Python module.","published":"2013-03-12T23:55:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:47:12.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.7,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["redhat/automatic bug reporting tool"],"epss":{"score":0.00446,"percentile":0.38536,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/abrt.git/commit/?id=b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854011","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5659","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."}