VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-6441

high
Published 2014-02-14 · 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
7.2

Description

The lxc-sshd template (templates/lxc-sshd.in) in LXC before 1.0.0.beta2 uses read-write permissions when mounting /sbin/init, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying the init file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.0.0-1
sid Fixed 1.0.0-1
forky Fixed 1.0.0-1
bullseye Fixed 1.0.0-1
bookworm Fixed 1.0.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
linuxcontainerslxc{"endIncluding":"0.9.0"}
linuxcontainerslxc0.1.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.2.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.2.1
linuxcontainerslxc0.3.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.4.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.5.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.5.1
linuxcontainerslxc0.5.2
linuxcontainerslxc0.6.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.6.1
linuxcontainerslxc0.6.2
linuxcontainerslxc0.6.3
linuxcontainerslxc0.6.4
linuxcontainerslxc0.6.5
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.0
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.1
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.2
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.3
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.4
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.4.1
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.4.2
linuxcontainerslxc0.7.5
linuxcontainerslxc0.8.0

References

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.