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CVE-2007-6283

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-12-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Fedora install the Bind /etc/rndc.key file with world-readable permissions, which allows local users to perform unauthorized named commands, such as causing a denial of service by stopping named.

Affected products

• Centos: 5
• Fedoraproject Fedora Core: all versions
• Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 5.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems: 5.0_s390x
• RedHat Enterprise Linux For Power Big Endian: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/28180
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30313
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-6283
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9977
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00587.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00671.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28180
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30313
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0300.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-6283
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9977

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