CVE-2013-2068

critical

Published 2013-09-28 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the AgentController in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 2.0 allow remote attackers to create and overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename parameter to the (1) log, (2) upload, or (3) linuxpkgs method.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-30469 remote linux verified

Metasploit · 2013-12-24

RedHat CloudForms Management Engine 5.1 - agent/linuxpkgs Directory Traversal (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/cfme_manageiq_evm_upload_exec rank 600

Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.1 agent/linuxpkgs Path Traversal

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
redhat	cloudforms_management_engine	`5.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.