CVE-2013-4419

medium

Published 2013-11-05 · 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

6.8

Description

The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.

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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OS impact

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
11.0	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:1.22.7-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:1.22.7-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:1.22.7-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:1.22.7-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:1.22.7-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
libguestfs	libguestfs	`{"startIncluding":"1.20.0","endIncluding":"1.20.12"}`
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`11.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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