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CVE-2013-4400

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2013-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

virt-login-shell in libvirt 1.1.2 through 1.1.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gain privileges via unspecified environment variables or command-line arguments.

Affected products

• libvirt: 1.1.2, 1.1.3

References

• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e2f27e13b94f7302ad948bcacb5e02c859a25fc
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c3586ea755c40d5e01b22cb7b5c1e668cdec994
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b7fcc799ad5d8f3e55b89b94e599903e3c092467
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121370.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60895
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-04.xml
• http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Maintenance_Releases
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015228
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3e2f27e13b94f7302ad948bcacb5e02c859a25fc
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8c3586ea755c40d5e01b22cb7b5c1e668cdec994
• http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b7fcc799ad5d8f3e55b89b94e599903e3c092467
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/121370.html

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