Vulnerability in Libguestfs
CVE-2013-4419
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.008 (53.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Libguestfs
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 11.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit — versions 11.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1536.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/55813 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-October/msg00031.html (mailing-list, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)