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CVE-2013-6441

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-02-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The lxc-sshd template (templates/lxc-sshd.in) in LXC before 1.0.0.beta2 uses read-write permissions when mounting /sbin/init, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the init file.

Affected products

• lxc: through 0.9.0; 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0 (+17)

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2104-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lxc/%2Bbug/1261045
• https://github.com/dotcloud/lxc/pull/1
• https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/f4d5cc8e1f39d132b61e110674528cac727ae0e2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2104-1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/lxc/%2Bbug/1261045
• https://github.com/dotcloud/lxc/pull/1
• https://github.com/lxc/lxc/commit/f4d5cc8e1f39d132b61e110674528cac727ae0e2

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