CVE-2012-3537 (GCVE-0-2012-3537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-09-05 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:13
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Summary
The Crowbar Ohai plugin (chef/cookbooks/ohai/files/default/plugins/crowbar.rb) in the Deployer Barclamp in Crowbar, possibly 1.4 and earlier, allows local users to execute arbitrary shell commands via vectors related to "insecure handling of tmp files" and predictable file names.
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