CVE-2013-4419

Severity

68%

Complexity

32%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-11-05 20:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-12-13 17:57:00

Affected Software

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11.0 Service Pack 3

11.0

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 Service Pack 3

11.0

References

SUSE-SU-2013:1626

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2013:1536

Third Party Advisory

55813

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960

Patch, Third Party Advisory

[Libguestfs] 20131017 ANNOUNCE: CVE-2013-4419: insecure temporary directory handling for guestfish's network socket

Third Party Advisory

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