Security Advisory SA50442 - Crowbar Ohai Plugin Insecure Temporary Files Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA50442

Crowbar Ohai Plugin Insecure Temporary Files Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA50442

Release Date

2012-08-28

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Workaround

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Software:

Crowbar

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CVE-2012-3537 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in Crowbar, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the Ohai plugin using temporary files in an insecure manner, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

Solution
Fixed in the Git repository.

Provided and/or discovered by
Thomas Biege, SUSE

Original Advisory
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q3/302

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