CVE-2013-4169

high

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) before 2.21.1 allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary directories via a symlink attack on /tmp/.X11-unix/.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2013-4094

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=988498

http://secunia.com/advisories/54661

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1213.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-10

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00031