CVE-2012-3484 — Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on a test for specific ownership and permissions to determine whether a program can be safely executed, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via a (1) user-mountable image or (2) network share

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Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on a test for specific ownership and permissions to determine whether a program can be safely executed, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via a (1) user-mountable image or (2) network share

Published Aug 26, 2012

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.18%

Description

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on a test for specific ownership and permissions to determine whether a program can be safely executed, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and gain privileges via a (1) user-mountable image or (2) network share.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.18% 0.00185

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

EPSS probability 0.00185

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 (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.18% (0.00185)	7.30th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.18% (0.00185)	8.25th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.02% (0.00024)	3.94th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 5, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 4, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	0.46th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-08/0122.html
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/issues/detail?id=212
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/14/1
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-08/0122.html		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/issues/detail?id=212		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/14/1		mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner redhat

Published Aug 26, 2012

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Jun 14, 2012

Link CVE-2012-3484

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2012-3484

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2012-3484