CVE-2013-4392

State: Published
Severity: 5.0 Medium
Published: Oct 28, 2013
Updated: Jun 9, 2025
Reserved: Jun 12, 2013

Description

systemd, when updating file permissions, allows local users to change the permissions and SELinux security contexts for arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859060
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725357
[oss-security] 20131001 Re: [CVE request] systemdmailing-list

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