CVE-2012-0420: Opensuse Zypper

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Opensuse Zypper: up to and including 1.2.8; version 0.11.6 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.6.16 only

Published 2013-12-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.