CVE-2013-1959

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.3%

from disclosure to weapon11 days

Published on NVDMay 3

1st PoC+11d

exploitation probability

1.3%top 33% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

kernel/user_namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not have appropriate capability requirements for the uid_map and gid_map files, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a file within an unprivileged process and then modifying the file within a privileged process.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/25450unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/25307unverified

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6708075f104c3c9b04b23336bb0366ca30c3931b https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25307 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/29/1