CVE-2013-6412

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: 2014-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The transform_save function in transform.c in Augeas 1.0.0 through 1.1.0 does not properly calculate the permission values when the umask contains a "7," which causes world-writable permissions to be used for new files and allows local users to modify the files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Red Hat, Inc. augeas: 1.0.0, 1.1.0

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0044.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034261
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/f5b4fc0c
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/58
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0044.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034261
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/commit/f5b4fc0c
https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/pull/58

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