CVE-2012-5577
Python keyring lib before 0.10 created keyring files with world-readable permissions.
02 Description
Python keyring lib before 0.10 created keyring files with world-readable permissions.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.83% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-10-28 16:10Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 21:14Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-10-24
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276Incorrect Default PermissionsBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 475f46bfa74d4ba3e29e8da86db04a13b8fce12ca93c02c52459e00c4ef74c01
05 Affected products
06 References
- security-tracker.debian.orghttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5577
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-5577
- www.openwall.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/27/3
- bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/commits/049cd181470f1ee6c540e1d64acf1def7b1de0c1
- bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/kang/python-keyring-lib/issue/67/set-go-rwx-on-keyring_passcfg
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- python-keyring Fixed in 0.9.2-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- python-keyring Fixed in 0.9.2-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- python-keyring Fixed in 0.9.2-1.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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