Vulnerability in GNOME Update-Manager-Core

CVE-2012-0948

DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py in Update Manager, as used by Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 11.10, and 11.04, uses weak permissions for (1) apt-clone_system_state.tar.gz and (2) system_state.tar.gz, which allows local users to obtain repository credentials.

EPSS: 0.004 (28.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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