CVE-2013-1060 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-1060?

CVE-2013-1060 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Sep 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A certain Ubuntu build procedure for perf, as distributed in the Linux kernel packages in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.10, 13.04, and 13.10, sets the HOME environment variable to the ~buildd directory and consequently reads the system configuration file from the ~buildd directory, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging control over the buildd account.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1060?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1060?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1060 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1060 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1060 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cw67-f6h6-2gmf.