CVE-2013-1820 Privilege escalation in tuned

What is CVE-2013-1820?

CVE-2013-1820 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 8 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

tuned before 2.x allows local users to kill running processes due to insecure permissions with tuned's ktune service.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1820?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Redhat Tuned.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1820?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-1820 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-1820 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1820 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5h65-vpv9-88m6.