CVE-2013-2029 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2013-2029?

CVE-2013-2029 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Redhat Openstack, published on 23 Nov 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

nagios.upgrade_to_v3.sh, as distributed by Red Hat and possibly others for Nagios Core 3.4.4, 3.5.1, and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary nagioscfg file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-2029?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Openstack.

How do I fix CVE-2013-2029?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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

Is CVE-2013-2029 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-2029 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2022-38065 Privilege escalation in OpenStack High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4474 Hardcoded credentials in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2021-31918 Information disclosure in tripleo-ansible High 7.5

All Redhat Openstack vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8727-34w8-v299.