CVE-2013-2069

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

29/05/2013

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Red Hat livecd-tools before 13.4.4, 17.x before 17.17, 18.x before 18.16, and 19.x before 19.3, when a rootpw directive is not set in a Kickstart file, sets the root user password to empty, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:livecd-tools::::::::		13.4.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:livecd-tools::::::::	17.0 (including)	17.17 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:livecd-tools::::::::	18.0 (including)	18.16 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:livecd-tools::::::::	19.0 (including)	19.3 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2013-2069

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools