CVE-2013-4419

medium
Published 2013-11-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4419

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1016960

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4419.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:1.22.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:1.22.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed1:1.22.7-1
debian debiansidfixed1:1.22.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1:1.22.7-1
suse suse11.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libguestfslibguestfs{"startIncluding":"1.20.0","endIncluding":"1.20.12"}
suse susesuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit11.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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