CVE-2013-4419

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

05/11/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs::::::::	1.20.0 (including)	1.20.12 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:libguestfs:libguestfs::::::::	1.22.0 (including)	1.22.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:suse:suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit:11.0:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:o:novell:suse_linux_enterprise_server:11.0:sp3::::::

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CVE-2013-4419

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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