CVE-2013-4223

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Gentoo Nullmailer package before 1.11-r2 uses world-readable permissions for /etc/nullmailer/remotes, which allows local users to obtain SMTP authentication credentials by reading the file.

Affected products

gentoo Nullmailer: 1.11

References

http://osvdb.org/96177
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/337
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/339
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61743
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480376
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86384
http://osvdb.org/96177
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/337
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/339
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61743
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480376
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86384

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