CVE-2013-4419

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.

Affected products

Libguestfs: from 1.20.0 through 1.20.12; from 1.22.0 through 1.22.7
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-sp3
Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11.0-sp3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1536.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55813
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-October/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1536.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55813
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2013-October/msg00031.html

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