CVE-2013-7283

critical
Published 2014-01-09 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Race condition in the libreswan.spec files for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora packages in libreswan 3.6 has unspecified impact and attack vectors, involving the /var/tmp/libreswan-nss-pwd temporary file.

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-2013-7283

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://lists.libreswan.org/pipermail/swan-announce/2013/000007.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/libreswan/libreswan/commit/ef2d756e73a188401c36133c2e2f7ce4f3c6ae55

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://secunia.com/advisories/56276

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libreswanlibreswan3.6

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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