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CVE-2013-4169

Date: September 10, 2013

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

http://secunia.com/advisories/54661
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=988498
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1213.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4169
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4169
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-4169

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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