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CVE-2013-4455

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4455 describes a vulnerability in Katello Installer prior to version 0.0.18, where it sets world-readable permissions on the /etc/pki/tls/private/katello-node.key file during child Pulp node deployment. This misconfiguration allows local users to easily read and obtain the private key. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of information disclosure (confidentiality loss). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello_installer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello_installer:0.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello_installer:0.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello_installer:0.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:katello:katello_installer:0.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
37.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0046 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-4455Moderate

katello-installer: node-installer creates world readable private key file

Oct 21, 2013

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / Katello/katello-installer/commit/15e01086bcb3f5d42525730e8b162bca11bec85e
ExploitPatch