CVE-2013-0261 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in PackStack's installer/basedefs.py and modules/ospluginutils.py, affecting OpenStack Essex and Folsom. An attacker can exploit this by creating a symlink to a sensitive file, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files due to predictable temporary file names in /tmp. With a CVSS score of 4.4 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability requires local access and medium attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openstack:essex:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openstack:folsom:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.