CVE-2012-2252 (GCVE-0-2012-2252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-11 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:26
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Summary
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in rssh before 2.3.4, when the rsync protocol is enabled, allows local users to bypass intended restricted shell access via the --rsh command line option.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2012-11-27 00:00
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.