CVE-2013-4482

Vulnerabilidad de ruta de búsqueda no confiable en python-paste-script (también conocido como paster) en Luci 0.26.0, cuando se comienza a usar el initscript, permite a usuarios locales obtener privilegios a través de un caballo de troya en el archivo .egg-info en el (1) directorio de trabajo actual o (2) sus directorios padres.

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.

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.