CVE-2012-0786: Augeas

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The transform_save function in transform.c in Augeas before 1.0.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information via a symlink attack on a .augnew file.

Affected products

• Augeas Augeas: up to and including 0.10.0; version 0.0.1 only; version 0.0.2 only; version 0.0.3 only; version 0.0.4 only; version 0.0.5 only; …

Published 2013-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.