CVE-2013-4235

low-risk

Published 2019-12-03

shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees

Do I need to act?

0.06% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 4.7/10 Medium

LOCAL / HIGH complexity

Shadow

Debian Linux

Fedora

Enterprise Linux

Debian Redhat Fedoraproject

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4235

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4235

Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4235

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-26

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4235

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4235

Third Party Advisory https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4235

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-26

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low-risk

Severity 12/34 · Low

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 14/34 · Moderate