CVE-2012-0420 — zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable

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MEDIUM

zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable

Published Dec 2, 2013

4.4

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.34%

Description

zypp-refresh-wrapper in SUSE Zypper before 1.3.20 and 1.6.x before 1.6.166 allows local users to create files in arbitrary directories, or possibly have unspecified other impact, via a pathname in the ZYPP_LOCKFILE_ROOT environment variable.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.34% 0.00337

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00337

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.34% (0.00337)	24.68th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.34% (0.00337)	25.27th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00054)	13.95th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770630
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770630		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0420.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 2, 2013

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jan 9, 2012

Link CVE-2012-0420

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-0420

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-0420