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CVE-2013-4173

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the trend-data daemon (xymond_rrd) in Xymon 4.x before 4.3.12 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the host name in a "drophost" command.

Affected products

• Xymon: through 4.3.1; 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1.0 (+6)

References

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.12/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:213
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/27/3
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymon/files/Xymon/4.3.12/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:213
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/27/3

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