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medium 6.2

CVE-2012-5578 json

Incorrect Default Permissions in keyring

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-8867-vpm3-g98g , PYSEC-2019-182 , EUVD-2019-0071

cvss
6.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Python keyring has insecure permissions on new databases allowing world-readable files to be created

Patch / fix

  • pypi keyring 0.10, 0.10.1
  • python-keyring Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.2-1.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-5578

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-2012-5578 updated cvss 2.1

python-keyring: insecure permissions on configuration file

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi keyring
<0.10
<0.10.1
0.10
0.10.1

Affected products

  • Python Python keyring

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

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.