CVE-2013-4235
MEDIUM
4.7
CVSS Score
Published: December 3, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 07:16 AM UTC
5 products affected across 4 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraEnterprise Linux
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Severity
MEDIUM4.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (6)
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4235Third Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4235Vendor AdvisoryThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-26Source: 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.htmlCVSS
- Attack Vector
- LOCAL
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-367
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