NetworkManager 0.9 and earlier allows local users to use other users' certificates or private keys when making a connection via the file pa…

published 2020-03-10 6 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-1132

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.7%; EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

NetworkManager 0.9 and earlier allows local users to use other users' certificates or private keys when making a connection via the file path when adding a new connection.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-1096 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 4.7

wpa_supplicant: Improper x509v3 certificate and key file paths sanitization

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager-glib, NetworkManager-gnome
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

2012-02-29 First public exploit (EDB-36887)
2020-03-10 Published

Exploit prediction

0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

EDB-36887 GNOME NetworkManager 0.x - Local Arbitrary File Access local, 2012-02-29

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.9	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Affected products

GNOME NetworkManager

Classification

Weakness

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

bugzilla.gnome.org /show_bug.cgi?id=793329
issue-tracking, vendor-advisory
security-tracker.debian.org /tracker/CVE-2012-1096
third-party-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1096
issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
bugzilla.suse.com /show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1096
issue-tracking, third-party-advisory
access.redhat.com /security/cve/cve-2012-1096
third-party-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2012/03/02/3
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2012-1096
NVD CVE-2012-1096

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary