VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4173

medium
Published 2013-10-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the trend-data daemon (xymond_rrd) in Xymon 4.x before 4.3.12 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the host name in a "drophost" command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.3.17-2
debian debianbullseyefixed4.3.17-2
debian debianforkyfixed4.3.17-2
debian debiansidfixed4.3.17-2
debian debiantrixiefixed4.3.17-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xymonxymon{"endIncluding":"4.3.1"}
xymonxymon4.0
xymonxymon4.0.1
xymonxymon4.0.2
xymonxymon4.0.3
xymonxymon4.0.4
xymonxymon4.1.0
xymonxymon4.1.1
xymonxymon4.1.2
xymonxymon4.2.0
xymonxymon4.2.2
xymonxymon4.2.3
xymonxymon4.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.