GNU Automake vulnerabilities

2 CVEs affecting GNU Automake, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2012-3386, published 2012-08-07.

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• CVE-2009-4029, published 2009-12-20. Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The (1) dist or (2) distcheck rules in GNU Automake 1.11.1, 1.10.3, and release branches branch-1-4 through branch-1-9, when producing a distribution tarball for a package that uses Automake, assign…
• CVE-2012-3386, published 2012-08-07. Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local…