CVE-2013-4419

Published Nov 5, 2013

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
3.2
Vector string
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-264

Configurations