CVE-2012-3512: Munin-Monitoring Munin

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Munin before 2.0.6 stores plugin state files that run as root in the same group-writable directory as non-root plugins, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by replacing a state file, as demonstrated using the smart_ plugin.

Affected products

• Munin-Monitoring Munin: up to and including 2.0.5; version 2.0-beta1 only; version 2.0-beta2 only; version 2.0-beta3 only; version 2.0-beta4 only; version 2.0-beta5 only; …

Published 2012-11-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.