CVE-2013-3709
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.2
Description
WebYaST 1.3 uses weak permissions for config/initializers/secret_token.rb, which allows local users to gain privileges by reading the Rails secret token from this file.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| novell | suse_lifecycle_management_server | 1.3 | |
| suse | studio_onsite | 1.3 | |
| suse | webyast | 1.3 | |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00001.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851116
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/rails_secret_deserialization.rb
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00001.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=851116
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/rails_secret_deserialization.rb
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.