# CVE-2013-4280: Other in vdsm

> An insecure temporary file handling flaw in Red Hat vdsm allows local attackers to potentially escalate privileges or modify data.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 4 Nov 2019
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-94vh-mfcc-fg39

## What is CVE-2013-4280?

CVE-2013-4280 is a medium-severity vulnerability in RedHat vdsm, published on 4 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Insecure temporary file vulnerability in RedHat vsdm 4.9.6.

Weakness: CWE-668 (Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4280?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Redhat Enterprise Virtualization, Redhat Storage, Redhat Virtual Desktop Server Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2013-4280?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4280 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2013-4280 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in RedHat vdsm

- [CVE-2015-5201](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-5201/): Auth bypass in Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (aka RHEV-H) (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2013-2151](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2151/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2013-2152](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2152/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2013-2176](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2176/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2017-2614](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2614/): Auth bypass in ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4280 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2013-4280 is a medium-severity vulnerability in RedHat vdsm, published on 4 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: RedHat vdsm. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4280/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4280/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4280
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4280
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4280

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