CVE-2013-4419 Race condition in n/a
Medium 6.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4419 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2013-4419 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server, published on 5 Nov 2013. 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-2013-4419 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server. 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-2013-4419/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4419/index.md)
Local attackers can execute arbitrary commands by exploiting a race condition in guestfish temporary socket creation when remote options are used.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-4419?
CVE-2013-4419 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server, published on 5 Nov 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The guestfish command in libguestfs 1.20.12, 1.22.7, and earlier, when using the --remote or --listen option, does not properly check the ownership of /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ when creating a temporary socket file in this directory, which allows local users to write to the socket and execute arbitrary commands by creating /tmp/.guestfish-$UID/ in advance.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4419?
It affects 3 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-java Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-java-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-javadoc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-tools-c Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ocaml-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ocaml-libguestfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
perl-Sys-Guestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
python-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ruby-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-java Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-java-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-javadoc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-tools-c Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ocaml-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ocaml-libguestfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
perl-Sys-Guestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
python-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ruby-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::computenode | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-java Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-java-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-javadoc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs-tools-c Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ocaml-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ocaml-libguestfs-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
perl-Sys-Guestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
python-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
ruby-libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
libguestfs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 1:1.20.11-2.el6 |
Products include Libguestfs Libguestfs, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit.
How do I fix CVE-2013-4419?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2013-4419 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4419 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4419, GHSA-3vxx-8f6w-cpxp, RHSA-2013:1536, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4419.