CVE-2012-1567

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

LinuxMint as of 2012-03-19 has temporary file creation vulnerabilities in mintUpdate.

CVSS

Version: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Base score: 7.5

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.02%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 62
Score date: 10/5/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Linuxmint — Linuxmint

CWEs

NVD-CWE-noinfo

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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