CVE-2013-4481
luci: short exposure of authentication secrets while generating configuration file
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
Race condition in Luci 0.26.0 creates /var/lib/luci/etc/luci.ini with world-readable permissions before restricting the permissions, which allows local users to read the file and obtain sensitive information such as "authentication secrets."
Condición de carrera en Luci 0.26.0 crea /var/lib/luci/etc/luci.ini con permisos de escritura antes de restringir los permisos, lo que permite a usuarios locales leer archivos y obtener información sensible, tal como los "secretos de autenticación".
A flaw was found in the way luci generated its configuration file. The file was created as world readable for a short period of time, allowing a local user to gain access to the authentication secrets stored in the configuration file.
Luci is a web-based high availability administration application. A flaw was found in the way the luci service was initialized. If a system administrator started the luci service from a directory that was writable to by a local user, that user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the root or luci user. A flaw was found in the way luci generated its configuration file. The file was created as world readable for a short period of time, allowing a local user to gain access to the authentication secrets stored in the configuration file.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:-
Timeline
- 2013-06-12 CVE Reserved
- 2013-11-21 CVE Published
- 2024-08-06 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
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- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CAPEC
References (3)
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1603.html | 2019-04-22 | |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=988998 | 2013-11-20 | |
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4481 | 2013-11-20 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Scientificlinux Search vendor "Scientificlinux" | Luci Search vendor "Scientificlinux" for product "Luci" | 0.26.0 Search vendor "Scientificlinux" for product "Luci" and version "0.26.0" | - |
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Redhat Search vendor "Redhat" | Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" | 6.0 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "6.0" | - |
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