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CVE-2013-3709

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2013-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

WebYaST 1.3 uses weak permissions for config/initializers/secret_token.rb, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the Rails secret token from this file.

Affected products

• Novell Suse Lifecycle Management Server: 1.3
• SUSE Studio onsite: 1.3
• SUSE Webyast: 1.3

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00001.html
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851116
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/rails_secret_deserialization.rb
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00001.html

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