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CVE-2013-4159

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4159 describes a vulnerability in CTDB before version 2.3, specifically affecting OpenSUSE 12.3 and 13.1, where temporary files are not created securely, leading to unspecified impact across multiple CTDB components. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating low current threat visibility.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ctdb_project:ctdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ctdb_project:ctdb:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ctdb_project:ctdb:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0237 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (5)

susevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: ctdb
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ctdb
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.0Fixed in: ctdb
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 2.1Fixed in: ctdb

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4159Low

ctdb: /tmp file vulnerability issues

Oct 30, 2013

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0274.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00052.html
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
git.samba.org
wiki.samba.org / index.php/CTDB2releaseNotes
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/12