CVE-2012-3355: Gnome Rhythmbox

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

(1) AlbumTab.py, (2) ArtistTab.py, (3) LinksTab.py, and (4) LyricsTab.py in the Context module in GNOME Rhythmbox 0.13.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on a temporary HTML template file in the /tmp/context directory.

Affected products

• Gnome Rhythmbox: up to and including 0.13.3; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.5.4 only; …

Published 2012-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.