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CVE-2013-7283

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the libreswan.spec files for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora packages in libreswan 3.6 has unspecified impact and attack vectors, involving the /var/tmp/libreswan-nss-pwd temporary file.

Affected products

• The Libreswan Project libreswan: 3.6

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/56276
• http://www.osvdb.org/101575
• https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/commit/ef2d756e73a188401c36133c2e2f7ce4f3c6ae55
• https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56276
• http://www.osvdb.org/101575
• https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/commit/ef2d756e73a188401c36133c2e2f7ce4f3c6ae55
• https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html

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