CVE-2014-0012

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2014-0012

    CVE-2014-0012

    Published: 19 May 2014Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: FileSystemBytecodeCache in Jinja2 2.7.2 does not properly create temporary directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by pre-creating a temporary directory with a user's uid. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-1402.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/56328, http://secunia.com/advisories/60738, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/commit/acb672b6a179567632e032f547582f30fa2f4aa7, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/commit/acb672b6a179567632e032f547582f30fa2f4aa7, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/292, https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2/pull/296, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051421, http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/73, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201408-13.xml

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2014-0012 | CVE-DB