CVE-2013-0159 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2013-0159?

CVE-2013-0159 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 1 May 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The fedora-business-cards package before 1-0.1.beta1.fc17 on Fedora 17 and before 1-0.1.beta1.fc18 on Fedora 18 allows local users to cause a denial of service or write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /tmp/fedora-business-cards-buffer.svg.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-0159?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora.

How do I fix CVE-2013-0159?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-0159 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2013-0159 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-0159 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-669r-pc8q-j6x9.