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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 p

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.00083
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Affected Products & Versions

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libguestfs>= 1.20.0 and <= 1.20.12
libguestfs>= 1.22.0 and <= 1.22.7

Scoring & Timeline

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD05 Nov 2013 · 08:55 PM

Vendor Advisories

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suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10032-1
rhsaRHSA-2013:1536Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2013:1527Important
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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