CVE-2013-4419
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 5, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 12, 2013
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2013:1536vendor-advisory
- 55813third-party-advisory
- [Libguestfs] 20131017 ANNOUNCE: CVE-2013-4419: insecure temporary directory handling for guestfish's network socketmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960
- SUSE-SU-2013:1626vendor-advisory
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