CVE-2012-3500: Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

scripts/annotate-output.sh in devscripts before 2.12.2, as used in rpmdevtools before 8.3, allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the temporary (1) standard output or (2) standard error output file.

Affected products

• Devscripts Devel Team Devscripts: up to and including 2.12.1; version 2.12.0 only

Published 2012-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.