PT-2013-2196 · Red Hat · Packstack

Kurt Seifried · Published 2013-03-08 · Updated 2026-04-30 · CVE-2013-0261

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PackStack (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file with a predictable name in /tmp. This is due to vulnerabilities in two components: (1) installer/basedefs.py and (2) modules/ospluginutils.py.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-0261

RHSA-2013:0595

Affected Products

Packstack

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0261 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0595.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908101 · Note
• https://t.me/cveNotify/161597 · Telegram Post
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0261 · Note