CVE-2012-5355: Bryce Harrington Xdiagnose

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

welcome.py in xdiagnose before 2.5.2ubuntu0.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name in /tmp.

Affected products

• Bryce Harrington Xdiagnose: up to and including 2.5; version 0.2-0ubuntu2 only; version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only

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