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medium 4.4

CVE-2012-5628 json

gofer before 0.68 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog, which allows local users to cause a denial of servic…

published 2018-05-04 8 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-5513

cvss
4.4
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 18%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

gofer before 0.68 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by removing journal entries.

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-2012-5628 updated cvss 1.9

gofer: /var/lib/gofer/journal/watchdog is world writable

  • 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

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 18% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

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.