CVE-2012-5530: Sgi Performance Co-Pilot

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) pcmd and (2) pmlogger init scripts in Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) before 3.6.10 allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /var/tmp/##### temporary file.

Affected products

• Sgi Performance Co-Pilot: up to and including 3.6.9; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.1.3 only; version 2.1.4 only; version 2.1.5 only; …

Published 2012-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.