CVE-2013-0337

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The default configuration of nginx, possibly 1.3.13 and earlier, uses world-readable permissions for the (1) access.log and (2) error.log files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the files.

Affected products

nginx: through 1.3.13; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+44)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/55181
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-04.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/21/15
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/22/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/24/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/55181
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201310-04.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/21/15
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/22/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/24/1

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