CVE detail
CVE-2012-0943 — CVE-2012-0943
Published 2014-05-22 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor robert_ancell · Product lightdm · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0076
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
52.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
debian/guest-account in Light Display Manager (lightdm) 1.0.x before 1.0.6 and 1.1.x before 1.1.7, as used in Ubuntu Linux 11.10, allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a space in the name of a file in /tmp. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT1/ADT2 due to different codebases and affected versions. CVE-2012-6648 has been assigned for the gdm-guest-session issue.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References