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CVE-2013-2029

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh, as distributed by Red Hat and possibly others for Nagios Core 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary nagioscfg file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Affected products

• OpenStack: 3.0

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958015
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1526.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=958015

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