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CVE-2013-1820

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• 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: 2019-11-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

tuned before 2.x allows local users to kill running processes due to insecure permissions with tuned's ktune service.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 17
• RedHat Tuned: before 2.0.2 — fixed in 2.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: RedHat Tuned 2.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918233
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-1820
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1820
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918233
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-1820
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1820

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