CVE-2013-7393

Severity: low (CVSS 2.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The daemonize.py module in Subversion 1.8.0 before 1.8.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on the pid file created for (1) svnwcsub.py or (2) irkerbridge.py when the --pidfile option is used. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2013-4262 based on different affected versions (ADT3).

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Subversion: 1.8.0, 1.8.1

References

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2013-4262-advisory.txt
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2013-4262-advisory.txt

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